case fatality rate
Death ratio, infected
Case fatality rate is the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it, expressed as a percentage.
It measures disease severity rather than how widespread a disease is: The case fatality rate for rabies approaches 100% without treatment.
Often abbreviated CFR.
Compare with mortality rate, which measures deaths in a whole population.
- morbidityDisease occurrence rate
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- disease outbreakRapid spread of illness
- pandemic responseActions taken during outbreaks
- death tollTotal fatalities counted
excess deaths · proportion · percentage · John Snow · infection · intensive care · hospital admission · risk · IFR · outbreak investigation · contact tracing · communicable diseases · public health · deceased · plague · patients · transmission · pathogen
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death acceptance, mortality
- health statisticsprevalence, life expectancy, infant mortality, health indicators, vital statistics
- epidemiologyepidemic, epidemiology, pandemic, outbreak, endemic
- COVID-19COVID-19, spike protein, mRNA vaccines, omicron, variants
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