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case-fatality proportion

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Noun1.case-fatality proportion - 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
proportion - the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
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The overall case-fatality proportion was similar for female and male patients (14.
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While mortality rates remained relatively low, as in 2006, the case-fatality proportion rose to 13.
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