The challenge of epilepsy control in deprived settings: Low compliance and high fatality rates during a community-based phenobarbital program in rural Laos

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 539-540

  Tran, Duc Si ^a   Zen, Jie ^a,b   Strobel, Michel ^a   Odermatt, Peter ^a,c   Preux, Pierre Marie ^d   Huc, Pierre ^d   Delneuville, Luc ^e   Barennes, Hubert ^a  

^a Institut Francophone de Medecine Tropicale   (Laos)

^b KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^e Handicap International   (Laos)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DROWNING; EPILEPSY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INCOME; LAOS; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL AREA; SEX RATIO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LAOS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PHENOBARBITAL; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39749189515     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01529_3.x     Document Type: Letter

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