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Knowledge of prognosis helps in:

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    Strictly speaking, these are not rates, but proportions. However, in common usage, often the words recurrence rate, remission rate, etc., are used.

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  1. Department of Neurology Neurosciences Centre, and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Delhi, India

    Kameshwar Prasad

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Prasad, K. (2014). Prognosis. In: Fundamentals of Evidence Based Medicine. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0831-0_12

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