The incidence of epilepsy and unprovoked seizures in multiethnic, urban health maintenance organizations

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 502-506

  Annegers, John F ^a   Dubinsky, Stephanie ^b   Coan, Sharon Pasternak ^a   Newmark, Michael E ^b   Roht, Lewis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Kelsey Seybold Research Foundation   (United States)

^c SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Health maintenance organizations; Incidence; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; INCIDENCE; MANAGED CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0032913565     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00748.x     Document Type: Article

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