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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...
Autores principales: | Lipsitch, Marc, Donnelly, Christl A., Fraser, Christophe, Blake, Isobel M., Cori, Anne, Dorigatti, Ilaria, Ferguson, Neil M., Garske, Tini, Mills, Harriet L., Riley, Steven, Van Kerkhove, Maria D., Hernán, Miguel A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26181387 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003846 |
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