Question

For a large metropolitan region, the total number of new cases and observed deaths for patients who have had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) between the years of 2001 and 2015 are presented in the Table below.

year of diagnosis	total number of new cases	observed deaths
2001	2	2
2002	7	7
2003	27	25
2004	58	56
2005	120	113
2006	211	198
2007	401	374
2008	540	482
2009	631	537
2010	682	577
2011	763	644
2012	775	587
2013	1935	908
2014	947	259
2015	259	63

a. What is the case fatality rate for CVA for the years 2001 through 2015?

b. The midyear population for this region in 2014 was 11,140,950. What is the incidence rate for CVA for 2014?

Answer 1