case-fatality proportion

Definitions of case-fatality proportion
  1. noun
    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
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    proportion
    the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
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