Quality improvement in neurology: Child neurology quality measure set
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Quality improvement in neurology: Child neurology quality measure set: Executive summary.
Childhood neurologic disorders, as a group, include relatively common conditions such as migraine (prevalence between 3% and 10.6% in children 3–15 years of age), transient tic disorders (TDs) (3%), and specifically Tourette syndrome (TS) (0.8%), and rarer disorders such as infantile spasms that may occur in only about 1,200 infants each year in the United States. These disorders account for a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000004806