Potential Biases in Estimating Absolute and Relative Case-Fatality Risks during Outbreaks.

• Main Authors: Marc Lipsitch (Author), Christl A Donnelly (Author), Christophe Fraser (Author), Isobel M Blake (Author), Anne Cori (Author), Ilaria Dorigatti (Author), Neil M Ferguson (Author), Tini Garske (Author), Harriet L Mills (Author), Steven Riley (Author), Maria D Van Kerkhove (Author), Miguel A Hernán (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...