Other Medically Important Serious Event

**Semantic type:** Event

**Definition:** A serious adverse event that does not meet the criteria for being life threatening, requiring inpatient hospitalization, or causing death, persistent or significant disability or incapacity, cancer, or a congenital anomaly or birth defect, but may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one or more of those outcomes.

**Synonyms:** - SMIE - other serious (important medical events)