Decentralized, primary-care delivered epilepsy services in Burera District, Rwanda: Service use, feasibility, and treatment.

The effect of gender, age, distance from home to health center, or comorbidity on fifth visit attendance did not reach statistical significance in logistic regression analysis for patients with epilepsy ( Table 4 ), although when all patients were analyzed the effect of distance on fifth visit attendance was highly significant ( p < 0.01). 4 Discussion Our study is one of the first to characterize demographics, service use and follow-up, and treatment patterns for patients with epilepsy receiving care in primary care settings in rural sub-Saharan Africa.

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