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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...
Autores principales: | Böttcher, Lucas, Xia, Mingtao, Chou, Tom |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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