what does case-fatality proportion mean?
CASE-FATALITY PROPORTION as NOUN
- Meaning
- the number of cases of a disease ending in death divided by the number of cases of the disease
- usually expressed as a percentage or as the number of deaths per 1000 cases
Hypernyms(s) case-fatality proportion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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