Recognizing and preventing epilepsy-related mortality

Neurology

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 779-786

  Devinsky, Orrin ^a   Spruill, Tanya ^a   Thurman, David ^b   Friedman, Daniel ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; DROWNING; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SUDDEN DEATH; TRENDS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN; EPILEPSY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MORTALITY, PREMATURE;

EID: 84959183665     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002253     Document Type: Review

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