Disease Incidence Measure
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A Disease Incidence Measure is a probability of occurrence measure that is number of new cases of a disease or medical condition diagnosed within a specific time period.
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- See: Clinical Trial, Clinical Trial Measure, Epidemiology, Medical Condition, Disease, Diseased Organism.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_clinical_research#I Retrieved:2022-02-06.
- Incidence
- The number of new cases of a disease diagnosed each year. (NCI)
- Incidence
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/incidence_(epidemiology) Retrieved:2020-2-27.
- Incidence in epidemiology is a measure of the probability of occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time. Although sometimes loosely expressed simply as the number of new cases during some time period, it is better expressed as a proportion or a rate with a denominator.
Incidence proportion (also known as cumulative incidence) is the number of new cases within a specified time period divided by the size of the population initially at risk. For example, if a population initially contains 1,000 non-diseased persons and 28 develop a condition over two years of observation, the incidence proportion is 28 cases per 1,000 persons per two years, i.e. 2.8% per two years.
- Incidence in epidemiology is a measure of the probability of occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time. Although sometimes loosely expressed simply as the number of new cases during some time period, it is better expressed as a proportion or a rate with a denominator.