NR 503 Week 8 Final Exam Study Guide REVISED 2023-2024

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2. Define, compare, calculate, & interpret Measures of Morbidity a. Incidence rate: measurement of the number of new individuals who contract a disease during a particular period of time i. Calculat... ion: Number of new cases of disease or injury during specified period DIVIDED BY Size of population at start of period b. Attack rate: Same as risk, proportion of individuals in a population (initially free of disease) who develop the disease within a specified time interval. i. Calculation: Total number of new cases DIVIDED BY The total population c. Prevalence: measurement of all individuals affected by the disease at a particular time i. Calculation: Number of new cases of disease or injury during specified period DIVIDED BY Time each person was observed, totaled for all persons d. These rates are used to measure disease occurrence & make comparisons between population groups. They are commonly used measures that help our underst&ing of the distribution of disease in a given population. [Show More]

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