The OECD definition for a cause of death is the “disease or injury that initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death...” They also recognize

The OECD definition for a cause of death is the “disease or injury that initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death...” They also recognize a a contributory cause of death, defined as “a significant condition that unfavourably influences the course of the morbid process and thus contributes to the fatal outcome, but which is not related to the disease or condition directly causing death.”