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    Case fatality rate

    noun

    • 1. the proportion of cases of a disease or condition that are fatal within a specified period of time: "at this stage the case fatality rate is very high"

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  3. Case fatality rate, in epidemiology, the proportion of people who die from a specified disease among all individuals diagnosed with the disease over a certain period of time. Case fatality rate typically is used as a measure of disease severity and is often used for prognosis.

  4. In epidemiology, case fatality rate (CFR) – or sometimes more accurately case-fatality riskis the proportion of people who have been diagnosed with a certain disease and end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the CFR does not take into account the time period between disease onset and death. A CFR is generally expressed ...

  5. Feb 17, 2021 · Case Fatality Rate (CFR) measures the severity of a particular disease by defining the total number of deaths as a proportion of reported cases of a...

  6. The case-fatality rate is a proportion, not a true rate. As a result, some epidemiologists prefer the term case-fatality ratio . The concept behind the case-fatality rate and the death-to-case ratio is similar, but the formulations are different.

  7. Mar 25, 2020 · Case fatality rate (CFR) is the proportion of the number of deaths divided by the number of confirmed patients of a disease, which has been used to assess and compare the severity of the epidemic between countries.

    • Dong Hyun Kim, Young June Choe, Jin Young Jeong
    • 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e137
    • 2020
    • J Korean Med Sci. 2020 Mar 30; 35(12): e137.
  8. Prognosis. The case-fatality rate is 50 to 70%. Mortality, like incidence, is highest in children younger than 15 years and in persons older than 55 years, with no gender predilection. Death usually occurs during the first week; in surviving patients, recovery begins during the second week and may progress rapidly.

  9. Jul 29, 2020 · The case fatality rate is defined as the number of deaths from COVID-19 divided by the number of cases of COVID-19.

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