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Abstract
The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases in the population at a given time.
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21 entry terms
- Incidences
- Attack Rate
- Cumulative Incidence
- Incidence Proportion
- Incidence Rate
- Person-time Rate
- Secondary Attack Rate
- Attack Rate, Secondary
- Attack Rates
- Cumulative Incidences
- Incidence Proportions
- Incidence Rates
- Incidence, Cumulative
- Person time Rate
- Person-time Rates
- Proportion, Incidence
- Rate, Attack
- Rate, Incidence
- Rate, Person-time
- Rate, Secondary Attack
- Secondary Attack Rates
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Indexing Annotation
IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol; specify geographic term if pertinent
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History Note
90; was see INCIDENCE STUDIES 1989
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Previous Indexing
- Incidence Studies (1989)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Incidence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015994. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015994
- Incidence. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidence_(epidemiology)
- Incidence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217690