Patient-relevant, rather than physician-friendly, definitions of disease: An improved definition of epilepsy [9]

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 805-806

  Weaver, Donald F ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADULT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 21244439548     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.01.054     Document Type: Letter

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