prevalence - CISMeF

Preferred Label : prevalence;

MeSH definition : The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.;

MeSH synonym : prevalences;

DeCS synonym : Prevalence Rate;

MeSH hyponym : Period Prevalences; Prevalence, Period; Point Prevalences; Prevalence, Point;

MeSH annotation : IM GEN only; coord NIM with disease /epidemiol (IM); no qualif; total number of cases, new & old: do not confuse with INCIDENCE, total number of new cases; read MeSH definitions; specify geog if pertinent; IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol; specify geographic term if pertinent;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence;

Details

Origin ID

D015995;

UMLS CUI

C0033105;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Prevalence [Terme SASMAG]
- Prevalence [DeCS]
- Prevalent [NCIt concept]
- prevalence [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
- prevalence [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- prevalence [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
Ne pas confondre avec
- incidence [MeSH Descriptor]
Record concept(s)
- Period Prevalence [MeSH concept]
- Point Prevalence [MeSH concept]
- prevalence [MeSH concept]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- incidence [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]
Validated automatic mappings to BTNT
- Point Prevalence [NCIt concept]

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