All-cause mortality

Topic

All-cause mortality refers to the measure of the total number of deaths from any cause within a specific population over a defined period of time. In epidemiology and clinical research, it serves as a critical, unbiased endpoint to evaluate the overall health impact of risk factors, medical interventions, and lifestyle behaviors. Unlike cause-specific mortality, it accounts for all potential pathways of death, eliminating bias related to misclassification of the cause of death.