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Preferred term

Incidence  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Attack Rate, Secondary
  • Incidence Proportion
  • Incidence Proportions
  • Incidence Rate
  • Incidence Rates
  • Proportion, Incidence
  • Rate, Incidence
  • Rate, Secondary Attack
  • Secondary Attack Rate
  • Secondary Attack Rates

Note

  • IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol; specify geographic term if pertinent

Scope note

  • The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases in the population at a given time.

History note

  • 90; was see INCIDENCE STUDIES 1989

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015994

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