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Health Status in Epilepsy Care: Clinimetric Approach

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Clinimetrics is “the science of quantification of clinical phenomena with particular attention to the validation of the outcome variables” (20). With such a definition, clinimetrics will be useful in the appreciation of the results of epidemiologic studies and the evaluation of the efficiency of drug therapy in clinical practice. (10)

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  1. Privat-Dozent Chief, EEG Department, Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire de Genève, Genève, Switzerland

    P. Jallon M.D.

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  1. Instituut voor Epilepsiebestrijding, Heemstede, The Netherlands

    Harry Meinardi

  2. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Joyce A. Cramer

  3. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Joyce A. Cramer

  4. The Walton Centre, Liverpool, UK

    Gus A. Baker

  5. Hospital Geral de Santo António and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Antonio Martins da Silva

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Jallon, P. (1993). Health Status in Epilepsy Care: Clinimetric Approach. In: Meinardi, H., Cramer, J.A., Baker, G.A., da Silva, A.M. (eds) Quantitative Assessment in Epilepsy Care. NATO ASI Series, vol 255. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2990-3_10

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