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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  • (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.