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person-time units  

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  • It is common in medicine and epidemiology to express the frequency of occurrence of some event in terms of the number of events per person-time unit; for instance, the number of complications per 100 patient-days or the number of deaths per 100,000 person-years. A good example is the incidence rate, also known as the incidence density or force of morbidity or mortality. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Person-Time Units]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W5VK5Q91-P

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