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Community health workers to improve adherence to anti-seizure medication in rural South Africa: Is it cost-effective?
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Epilepsy is a common, chronic neurological disorder that disproportionately affects individuals living in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), where the treatment gap remains high and adherence to medication remains low. Community health workers (CHWs) have been shown to be effective at improving adherence to chronic medications, yet no study assessing the costs of CHWs in epilepsy management has been reported.
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Using a Markov model with age‐ and sex‐varying...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/epi.16756
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Epilepsia More from this journal
- Volume:
- 62
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- epi.16756
- Pages:
- 98-106
- Place of publication:
- United States
- Publication date:
- 2020-11-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-10-20
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1528-1167
- ISSN:
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0013-9580
- Pmid:
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33236782
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- Wagner et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- ©2020 The Authors. Epilepsia published by Wiley Periodicals LLC 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.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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