Differing Methods and Definitions Influence DALY estimates: Using Population-Based Data to Calculate the Burden of Convulsive Epilepsy in Rural South Africa

BACKGROUND: The disability adjusted life year (DALY) is a composite measure of disease burden that includes both morbidity and mortality, and is relevant to conditions such as epilepsy that can limit productive functioning. The 2010 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study introduced a number of new met...

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Veröffentlicht in:PLoS One
Hauptverfasser: Wagner, Ryan G., Ibinda, Fredrick, Tollman, Stephen, Lindholm, Lars, Newton, Charles R., Bertram, Melanie Y.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4689490/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26697856
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145300
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