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Epi Questions on disease freq
Questions on disease freq
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11/14/2004

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Term
For the following cards name if it is a rate / ratio / proportion and what type of disease frequency (cumulative incidence / incidence rate / prevalence)
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1. Percentage of infants enrolled in a day-care center who contracted impetigo during the course of an epidemic.
Definition
1. attack rate
2. cumulative incidence
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2. Percentage of potential army recruits rejected because of poor vision.
Definition
1. proportion
2. prevalence
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3. Number of colds expreienced in a year per thousand people.
Definition
1. rate
2. incidence rate
Term
4. Percent of deceased males who are found to have prostate cancer at autopsy.
Definition
1. proportion
2. prevalence
Term
5. Number of stillbirths per thousand live-births
Definition
1. ratio
Term
6. Percent of persons who have malaria that is resistant to treatment with chloroquine.
Definition
1. proportion
2. prevalence
Term
7. Number of newly diagnosed brain tumors in a year per 100,000 children.
Definition
1. rate
2. cumulative incidence or incidence
Term
8. Percent of live-born infants with a cardiac malformation amoung 100,000 live-births
Definition
1. proportion
2. prevalence
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