Voorbeelden van fatality rate

• The virus had a fatality rate of 75 percent; only a few diseases, such as untreated AIDS, have been as lethal.

• The state doesn't keep data on helmet use, so fatality rates for riders wearing or not wearing helmets could not be determined.

• The main reason that the childbirth fatality rate dropped in the start of the last century is that doctors finally put into place decent hygiene standards.

• In the U.S., the average fatality rate for skydiving is considered to be about 1 in 80,000 jumps.

• The in-hospital case-fatality rate was 0.4 % for varicella and 1 % for zoster.

• The crude case-fatality rate was 2.0 %, with death occurring in three of the six nursing homes.

• The fatality rate was 13n2 % and there was no difference in the fatality rate between males and females over 5 years old.

• This was the case for our estimates of the fatality rate from bacteremia.

• The case-fatality rate was 13 % for patients<60 years of age and 43 % for those aged o60 years [4].

• Meningococcal infections : reducing the case fatality rate by giving penicillin before admission to hospital.

• We collected data on underlying disease and outcome in terms of case fatality rate and neurological sequelae.

• In a loglinear analysis the associations between case fatality rate, underlying conditions, age, and serotype were tested.

• Most also varied the incidence/prevalence of the target condition and the case fatality rate.

• Furthermore, the fatality rate among female children was more than two times higher than male children of the same age group.

• In most of the newly affected countries the disease caused severe outbreaks with a fatality rate of 40 % or more.

• The meningitis-related case fatality rate in this study (16 %) is comparable to rates seen elsewhere.

• The overall case fatality rate of hospitalized zoster (4 %) was eight times higher than that of varicella (0.5 %).