有一位老专家曾告诉我,他的一篇文章在某杂志发表后,收到了一位读者的来信。来信指出,他的文章中所用的死亡率都应该是病死率。这位老专家诚恳地接受了读者的意见,并且告诫我们在编辑工作中注意这一问题。我们从接触的大量医学文稿中发现,绝大多数作者确实混淆了死亡率和病死率的概念,总是以死 An old expert once told me that one of his articles received a letter from a reader after the publication of a magazine. According to the letter, the mortality rate used in his article should be the case fatality rate. The old expert sincerely accepted the reader’s opinion and warned us to pay attention to this issue in the editorial work. From the large volume of medical contact we have found, the vast majority of authors do confuse the concept of mortality and mortality with death