after before subject health status serious health status critical but stable health status Damion Dooley Damion Dooley's note: This is a contentious term. AHA calls for it never to be used, since the common phrase "critical but stable" is misleading by the very nature of "critical". The NHS however has it as one of its central terms. The use of "stable" also points to a health trend, rather than a state. A separate "health status trend datum" has been set up to capture this. subject health status (UK NHS) critical health status metadata incomplete