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Why case fatality ratios can be misleading: individual- and population-based mortality estimates and factors influencing them

Different ways of calculating mortality during epidemics have yielded very different results, particularly during the current COVID-19 pandemic. For example, the “CFR” has been interchangeably called the case fatality ratio, case fatality rate, and case fatality risk, often without standard mathemat...

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Autores principales: Böttcher, Lucas, Xia, Mingtao, Chou, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8849595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32554901
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/ab9e59