Which one of the following is a good index of the serverity of an acute disease
ref: Park&;s 23rd edition pg 58 Case fatality rate measures the killing power of a disease, for acute infectious diseases like food poisoning, cholera, measles. it is simply the ratio (it is not a RATE) of deaths to cases.
Cause specific death rate
Case fatality rate
Standardized moality ratio
Five year survival
Epidemiology