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The validation of a three-stage screening methodology for detecting active convulsive epilepsy in population-based studies in health and demographic surveillance systems
BACKGROUND: There are few studies on the epidemiology of epilepsy in large populations in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). Most studies in these regions use two-stage population-based screening surveys, which are time-consuming and costly to implement in large populations required to generate...
Autores principales: | Ngugi, Anthony K, Bottomley, Christian, Chengo, Eddie, Kombe, Martha Z, Kazungu, Michael, Bauni, Evasius, Mbuba, Caroline K, Kleinschmidt, Immo, Newton, Charles R |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3549939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23171721 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-9-8 |
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