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Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition
SARS Epidemiology

SARS Outbreak, Taiwan, 2003

Ying-Hen Hsieh*Comments to Author , Cathy W.S. Chen†, and Sze-Bi Hsu‡
Author affiliations: *National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan; †Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan; ‡National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

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Table 3

Comparison of the estimated intervals from admission to death or discharge for SARS patients in Taiwan with those from Hong Kong studya

Days
Interval for:
 Taiwan
 Hong Kong
Admission to designation as a probable case-patient to death 36.87 35.9
Admission to designation as a probable case-patient to discharge 23.94 23.5

aBy Donnelly et al. (13). SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.

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