incidence rate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincidenceandrate
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incidence
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/us/ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/
an event, or the rate at which ...
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rate
noun[C]
uk/reɪt/us/reɪt/
the speed at which something happens or changes, or the amount or number of times it happens or changes in a ...
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(Definition ofincidenceandratefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The increasedincidencerateof blastomycosis with age may represent increased susceptibility to infection as immunity wanes with age.
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There is no national record on theincidencerateof prostate cancer.
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The mid-point year (1993) population was used to calculate the age specificincidencerate.
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For each location and size of the scanning window, the null hypothesis was that theincidenceratewas the same for each commune.
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This equates to an annualincidencerateof 13.2 per 100 000.
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Conversely, under the alternative hypothesis, theincidenceratewas assumed higher inside than outside the window.
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The cost savings reflects the highincidencerateof hip fracture among this population and the low cost of the intervention.
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This equates to a nationalincidencerateof 13/100000 population per year.
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The tuberculosisincidencerateis one of the world's highest for open-space sites (1,380/100,000).
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The highestincidenceratefor males was in persons o70 years (4.5 isolates per million persons) and infants <1 year (4 isolates per million persons).
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A total of 119 cases (78.3 %) were in residence in the study area, representing a mean annual crudeincidencerateof 16.8 cases/105 inhabitants.
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Both of these calculations might have led to an overestimation of risk time in the denominator, and thus to a lowerincidencerate.
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Based on the trends in the data, we believe that the cellulitisincidenceratewould have been higher had this age group been included.
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We found a cellulitisincidencerateof 24.6/1000 person-years, with a higher incidence among males and individuals aged 45-64 years.
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In halls with more than 75 % first year residents theincidencerateratio was about 5 times the rate in halls with less than 50 %.
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