Potential Biases in Estimating Absolute and Relative Case-Fatality Risks during Outbreaks.

Potential Biases in Estimating Absolute and Relative Case-Fatality Risks during Outbreaks.

Estimating the case-fatality risk (CFR)-the probability that a person dies from an infection given that they are a case-is a high priority in epidemiologic investigation of newly emerging infectious diseases and sometimes in new outbreaks of known infectious diseases. The data available to estimate...

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Main Authors: Marc Lipsitch, Christl A Donnelly, Christophe Fraser, Isobel M Blake, Anne Cori, Ilaria Dorigatti, Neil M Ferguson, Tini Garske, Harriet L Mills, Steven Riley, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Miguel A Hernán
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4504518?pdf=render

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