Preferred Label : Incidence;
NCIt definition : The relative frequency of occurrence of something.;
Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: The number of new cases of a disease diagnosed each year.; CDISC-GLOSS: The occurrence of new cases of disease, injury, or disability in a defined
population over a specified period of time. NOTE: Incidence is most often expressed
relative to the total population at risk (i.e., per unit of population). [After Basic
Epidemiology, R. Bonita and others, WHO 2006; After Principles of Epidemiology in
Public Health Practice, Third Edition. An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, Lesson 3: Measures of Risk, CDC 2012] Compare to prevalence. See also
morbidity rate, morbidity, mortality, incidence rate.; MRCT-Ctr: Number of new cases or events during a period of time. (https://mrctcenter.org/glossaryterm/incidence/);
Codes from synonyms : CDR0000046145;
Origin ID : C16726;
UMLS CUI : C0021149;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- incidence [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- incidence [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- Semantic type(s)
- concept_is_in_subset
