Glossary:Contributory cause of death

A contributory cause of death is any cause of death that is neither the immediate, intervening, originating antecedent nor underlying cause; hence these are other significant conditions that contributed to the fatal outcome, but were not related to the disease or condition directly causing death.

Related concepts

• Antecedent cause
• Avoidable cause of death
• Cause of death
• Competing cause of death
• External cause of death

Statistical data

• Causes of death statistics

Source

• WHO, ICD-10 2nd Edition Vol. 2 (PDF file)