Attitudes toward epilepsy genetics testing among adult and pediatric epileptologists-results of a Q-PULSE survey

Epilepsy Currents

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 46-47

  Ferraro, Lindsay ^a   Pollard, John R ^a   Helbig, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOLOGIST; GENETIC SCREENING; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; LEARNING; NEUROLOGIST; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICIAN; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 84958155351     PISSN: 15357597     EISSN: 15357511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5698/1535-7597-16.1.46     Document Type: Article

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