In epidemiology, prevalence and incidence are among the most fundamental measures when it comes to monitoring disease. But do you know what they mean or how and why they are important? This article ...

Incidence means how many people get a particular type of cancer. It is often written as the number of cancer cases per 100,000 people in the general population. Around 375,400 people get diagnosed ...

Currently, no single U.S. surveillance system can provide estimates of the burden of all types of health care–associated infections across acute care patient populations. We conducted a prevalence ...