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Descriptor English: Incidence
Descriptor Spanish: Incidencia
Descriptor incidencia
Entry term(s) coeficiente de incidencia
densidad de incidencia
incidencia acumulada
proporción de incidencia
tasa de incidencia
tasa de transmisión
tasa de transmisión secundaria
Scope note: Número de casos nuevos de una determinada enfermedad durante un tiempo determinado en una población concreta. También se utiliza para la frecuencia con que ocurre un evento nuevo en una población dada. Es distinta de la PREVALENCIA, que hace referencia a todos los casos en una determinada población en un momento dado.
Descriptor Portuguese: Incidência
Descriptor French: Incidence
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.985.525.375
N01.224.935.597.500
N06.850.505.400.975.525.375
N06.850.520.308.985.525.375
SP5.467.413.770.861.320
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015994
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol; specify geographic term if pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Related: Risque MeSH
DeCS ID: 28583
Unique ID: D015994
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Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/09/06
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Incidence - Preferred
Concept UI M0024451
Preferred term Incidence



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