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ArticleFrontiers in public health2019

Managing Epilepsy by Telemedicine in Resource-Poor Settings.

Victor Patterson

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Victor PattersonVisiting Neurologist, Nepal Epilepsy Association, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Himalayan Rescue Association · NP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epilepsy is a common and treatable disease; in rich countries the expectation is that two-thirds of people will have their seizure episodes controlled on medication. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) however most people are not on treatment either because no doctors live near them or the logistics of affordable drug supply is absent. People with epilepsy then are prone to the bad effects of this disease-death, disfigurement from accidents and burns, and social problems due to the stigma with which the disease is associated. So this represents a failure of conventional face-to-face medicine. Might a telemedicine approach do better? The World Health Organization has suggested that non-physician health workers are empowered to diagnose and manage epilepsy; to do this they will need considerable medical support, which might be provided by telemedicine through the telephone, smartphone applications or a combination. This paper sets out what telemedicine does at present for people with epilepsy in LMICs and suggests how it might be developed in the future.

Indexed as

APPepilepsyepilepsy treatment gapLMICssmartphone applicationtelemedicineteleneurologyuntreated epilepsy

Identifiers

PMID31781527
PMCPMC6861372
OpenAlexW2981992991

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