Prevalence and incidence of epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 296-303

  Fiest, Kirsten M ^a,c   Sauro, Khara M ^a,b   Wiebe, Samuel ^a,b   Patten, Scott B ^a,b,c   Kwon, Churl Su ^d   Dykeman, Jonathan ^b   Pringsheim, Tamara ^a,b   Lorenzetti, Diane L ^a,e   Jetté, Nathalie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; FEMALE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; META ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 85009840495     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003509     Document Type: Review

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