Causality

"Causality" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors.

Descriptor ID	D015984
MeSH Number(s)	N05.715.350.200 N06.850.490.625
Concept/Terms	Causality Causality Causalities Multifactorial Causality Multifactorial Causality Causalities, Multifactorial Causality, Multifactorial Multifactorial Causalities Multiple Causation Multiple Causation Causation, Multiple Causations, Multiple Multiple Causations Reinforcing Factors Reinforcing Factors Factor, Reinforcing Factors, Reinforcing Reinforcing Factor Causation Causation Causations Enabling Factors Enabling Factors Enabling Factor Factor, Enabling Factors, Enabling Predisposing Factors Predisposing Factors Factor, Predisposing Factors, Predisposing Predisposing Factor

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Causality".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Epidemiologic Factors [N05.715.350]
Causality [N05.715.350.200]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Factors [N06.850.490]
Causality [N06.850.490.625]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Causality".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Causality".

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Causality" by people in this website by year, and whether "Causality" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 40 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2006 and 2007

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	1	1
1996	0	2	2
1998	0	1	1
1999	0	1	1
2003	0	1	1
2006	0	5	5
2007	1	4	5
2008	0	3	3
2009	0	3	3
2010	0	1	1
2011	0	1	1
2012	0	2	2
2013	0	1	1
2016	1	2	3
2017	0	2	2
2020	0	3	3
2021	1	1	2
2022	0	1	1
2024	0	2	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Causality" by people in Profiles.

Fisher DL, Agrawal R, Divekar G, Hamid MA, Krishnan A, Mehranian H, Muttart J, Pradhan A, Roberts S, Romoser M, Samuel S, Vlakveld W, Yamani Y, Young J, Zafian T, Zhang L. Novice driver crashes: The relation between putative causal factors, countermeasures, real world implementations, and policy - A case study in simple, scalable solutions. Accid Anal Prev. 2024 Apr; 198:107397.

View in: PubMed
Hamel AR, Yan W, Rouhana JM, Monovarfeshani A, Jiang X, Mehta PA, Advani J, Luo Y, Liang Q, Rajasundaram S, Shrivastava A, Duchinski K, Mantena S, Wang J, van Zyl T, Pasquale LR, Swaroop A, Gharahkhani P, Khawaja AP, MacGregor S, Chen R, Vitart V, Sanes JR, Wiggs JL, Segr? AV. Integrating genetic regulation and single-cell expression with GWAS prioritizes causal genes and cell types for glaucoma. Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 09; 15(1):396.

View in: PubMed
Ling AY, Montez-Rath ME, Carita P, Chandross KJ, Lucats L, Meng Z, Sebastien B, Kapphahn K, Desai M. An Overview of Current Methods for Real-world Applications to Generalize or Transport Clinical Trial Findings to Target Populations of Interest. Epidemiology. 2023 09 01; 34(5):627-636.

View in: PubMed
Teja B, Bosch NA, Walkey AJ. How We Escalate Vasopressor and Corticosteroid Therapy in Patients With Septic Shock. Chest. 2023 03; 163(3):567-574.

View in: PubMed
Kenny A, Voldal EC, Xia F, Heagerty PJ, Hughes JP. Analysis of stepped wedge cluster randomized trials in the presence of a time-varying treatment effect. Stat Med. 2022 09 30; 41(22):4311-4339.

View in: PubMed
Gershon AS, Lindenauer PK, Krishnan JA. Reply to Albert: Informing Healthcare Decisions with Observational Research Assessing Causal Effects: An American Thoracic Society Statement Not Ready for Implementation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 08 01; 204(3):376.

View in: PubMed
Rawat BPS, Jagannatha A, Liu F, Yu H. Inferring ADR causality by predicting the Naranjo Score from Clinical Notes. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2020; 2020:1041-1049.

View in: PubMed
Fay K, Sapiano MRP, Gokhale R, Dantes R, Thompson N, Katz DE, Ray SM, Wilson LE, Perlmutter R, Nadle J, Godine D, Frank L, Brousseau G, Johnston H, Bamberg W, Dumyati G, Nelson D, Lynfield R, DeSilva M, Kainer M, Zhang A, Ocampo V, Samper M, Pierce R, Irizarry L, Sievers M, Maloney M, Fiore A, Magill SS, Epstein L. Assessment of Health Care Exposures and Outcomes in Adult Patients With Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 07 01; 3(7):e206004.

View in: PubMed
Yaghi S, Ishida K, Torres J, Mac Grory B, Raz E, Humbert K, Henninger N, Trivedi T, Lillemoe K, Alam S, Sanger M, Kim S, Scher E, Dehkharghani S, Wachs M, Tanweer O, Volpicelli F, Bosworth B, Lord A, Frontera J. SARS-CoV-2 and Stroke in a New York Healthcare System. Stroke. 2020 07; 51(7):2002-2011.

View in: PubMed
Whitcomb BW, Naimi AI. Things Don't Always Go as Expected: The Example of Nondifferential Misclassification of Exposure-Bias and Error. Am J Epidemiol. 2020 05 05; 189(5):365-368.

View in: PubMed

People

Explore

Similar Concepts

Top Journals