Journal article
Premature mortality of epilepsy in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review from the Mortality Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy.
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Objectives
To determine the magnitude, risk factors and causes of premature mortality associated with epilepsy in low and middle income countries (LMIC).
Methods
We conducted a systematic search of the literature reporting mortality and epilepsy in the World Bank-defined LMIC. We assessed the quality of the studies based upon representativeness, ascertainment of cases, diagnosis, and mortality, and extracted data on standardized mortality ratios (SMR) and mortali...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
UK Epilepsy Society
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Marvin Weil Epilepsy Research Fund
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Epilepsia
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Epilepsy Study Consortium
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Epilepsia Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-10
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1528-1167
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:667850
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- Local pid:
- pubs:667850
- Source identifiers:
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667850
- Deposit date:
- 2017-01-09
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Levira et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 The Authors. Epilepsia published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International League Against Epilepsy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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