Case Fatality Rate (CFR)
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A Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is a demographic measure of proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of people diagnosed with the disease for a certain period of time.
- See: Epidemiology.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/case_fatality_rate Retrieved:2020-3-17.
- In epidemiology, a case fatality rate (CFR) — sometimes called case fatality risk or case fatality ratio — is the proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of people diagnosed with the disease for a certain period of time. A CFR is conventionally expressed as a percentage and represents a measure of disease severity. CFRs are most often used for diseases with discrete, limited time courses, such as outbreaks of acute infections. A CFR can only be considered final when all the cases have been resolved (either died or recovered). The preliminary CFR, for example, during the course of an outbreak with a high daily increase and long resolution time would be substantially lower than the final CFR.