Case fatality: Rate, ratio, or risk?

Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 622-623

  Kelly, Heath ^a,b   Cowling, Benjamin J ^c  

^a VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE FATALITY RATE; CASE FATALITY RATIO; CASE FATALITY RISK; CONSENSUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK;

ABBREVIATIONS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84879867309     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318296c2b6     Document Type: Letter

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