case fatality rate

English

Noun

case fatality rate (plural case fatality rates)

1. (pathology, epidemiology, statistics) A percentage derived by the division of the number of fatalities by the number of confirmed (diagnosed) cases (sufferers) of a disease.
   • 2020 March 12, Matt Stieb, “Does the Coronavirus Think I’m Old?”, in New York‎^[1]:

     That 3.4 percent mortality rate, though still fluid, is formidable, even compared next to the case fatality rates (the number of deaths compared to the total number of those diagnosed) for other recent outbreaks.

Synonyms

• CFR (abbreviation)
• case fatality risk
• case fatality ratio

Coordinate terms

• death rate
• infection fatality rate
• mortality
• mortality rate

Derived terms

• CFR (abbreviation)

Translations

ratio of number of fatalities to number of disease cases

• Czech: smrtnost (cs) f, letalita f

See also

• mortality rate
• incidence rate
• morbidity