case-fatality rate
1case fatality rate — the proportion of persons contracting a disease who die of that disease: the numerator is the number of deaths caused by a disease and the denominator is the number of diagnosed cases of the disease. Called also case fatality ratio, fatality r.,… …
2case fatality rate — the number of fatalities from a specified disease in a given period per 100 diagnosed cases of the disease arising in the same period. Unless deaths occur very rapidly after the onset of the disease (e.g. cholera), they may be the outcome of… …
3case fatality rate — the number of deaths from a disease in every hundred cases. See also mortality rate …
4hospital fatality rate — see case fatality rate …
5Case fatality — In epidemiology, case fatality (CF) or Fatality Rate, is the ratio of deaths within a designated population, over a certain period of time. An example of a fatality rate would be 9/10,000 per year. This means that within a given year, and out of… …
6fatality rate — 1. the death rate in a specific group of persons simultaneously affected by some event, such as a natural disaster. 2. case fatality r …
7case fatality ratio — the number of fatalities from a specified disease in a given period per 100 episodes of the disease arising in the same period. Unless all such deaths occur rapidly after the onset of the disease (e.g. cholera) they are likely to be the outcome… …
8case fatality ratio — see under rate …
9rate — 1. A record of the measurement of an event or process in terms of its relation to some fixed standard; measurement is expressed as the ratio of one quantity to another ( e.g., velocity, distance per unit …
10Case study — This article is about the method of doing research. For the teaching method, see Case method. For the method of teaching law, see Casebook method. A case study is an intensive analysis of an individual unit (e.g., a person, group, or event)… …
