病死率

bìngsǐlǜ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 case fatality rate
  2. 2 fatality rate of a disease
  3. 3 death rate among patients

Examples

Zhè zhǒng jíbìng de bìngsǐlǜ hěn gāo.
The fatality rate of this disease is very high.
Zǎoqī zhìliáo kěyǐ jiàngdī bìngsǐlǜ.
Early treatment can reduce the case fatality rate.

Tips

usage
病死率 (case fatality rate, CFR) = deaths ÷ diagnosed cases. Don't confuse with 死亡率 sǐwánglǜ (crude death rate: deaths per total population). During COVID reporting, 病死率 was the headline epidemiological metric for disease severity.

Stroke Order

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