Concept information
Preferred term
case-fatality rate
Definition
- Case-fatality rate (CFR) is a clinical measure that describes a person's likelihood of dying from a disease once he or she is diagnosed with it. It is calculated by dividing the number of deaths from a specified disease during a specified time by the number of individuals who have that disease during that time and multiplying this ratio by 100. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Case-Fatality Rate]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/case-fatality_rate
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