case fatality ratio — see under rate … Medical dictionary
Коэффициент Смертности (Case Fatality Ratio) — число смертельных исходов какого либо заболевания за данный период времени, приходящееся на 100 случаев возникновения данного заболевания за тот же период времени. Если все эти смертные случаи не связаны с какой либо эпидемией (например, холеры) … Медицинские термины
case fatality rate — the proportion of persons contracting a disease who die of that disease: the numerator is the number of deaths caused by a disease and the denominator is the number of diagnosed cases of the disease. Called also case fatality ratio, fatality r.,… … Medical dictionary
hospital fatality ratio — see case fatality ratio … Medical dictionary
Case fatality — In epidemiology, case fatality (CF) or Fatality Rate, is the ratio of deaths within a designated population, over a certain period of time. An example of a fatality rate would be 9/10,000 per year. This means that within a given year, and out of… … Wikipedia
Case study — This article is about the method of doing research. For the teaching method, see Case method. For the method of teaching law, see Casebook method. A case study is an intensive analysis of an individual unit (e.g., a person, group, or event)… … Wikipedia
Case series — A case series (also known as a clinical series) is a medical research descriptive study that tracks patients with a known exposure given similar treatment[1] or examines their medical records for exposure and outcome. It can be retrospective or… … Wikipedia
ratio — An expression of the relation of one quantity to another ( e.g., of a proportion or rate). SEE ALSO: index (2), quotient. [L. r. (ration ) a reckoning, reason, fr. reor, pp. ratus, to reckon, compute] absolute terminal innervation r. the number… … Medical dictionary
Odds ratio — The odds ratio [1][2][3] is a measure of effect size, describing the strength of association or non independence between two binary data values. It is used as a descriptive statistic, and plays an important role in logistic regression. Unlike… … Wikipedia
Nested case-control study — A nested case control study is a variation of a case cohort study in which only a subset of controls from the cohort are compared to the incident cases. In a case cohort study, all incident cases in the cohort are compared to a random subset of… … Wikipedia
