Measures of disease frequency: Prevalence and incidence

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Noordzij, Marlies ^a   Dekker, Friedo W ^b   Zoccali, Carmine ^c   Jager, Kitty J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c BIANCHI MELACRINO MORELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohort; Dynamic population; Incidence; Incidence rate; Prevalence; Risk

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREVALENCE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 76749092642     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000286345     Document Type: Short Survey

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