case-fatality proportion

1. 1.

   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

   Broaderproportion

Questions about case-fatality proportion

What does case-fatality proportion mean?

case-fatality proportion means "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".

Is case-fatality proportion a common word?

case-fatality proportion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.