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Record W2073137141 · doi:10.1179/027249302125001598

Epilepsy in children in Benin City, Nigeria

2002· article· en· W2073137141 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
R. M. Sykes

Bibliographic record

VenueAnnals of Tropical Paediatrics · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEpilepsy research and treatment
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineEpilepsyPediatricsDeveloping countryEtiologyQuarter (Canadian coin)Benin cityEl NiñoPsychiatryFamily medicineTeaching hospital

Abstract

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The pattern of epilepsy in children in Nigeria showed little difference from that seen in children in western countries, except that birth asphyxia was relatively common as a cause and there was a longer time between onset of seizures and parents seeking medical care. It was estimated that good control of seizures was achieved in 52.9% of children, but more than a quarter attended the clinic only once or twice and the reasons for this are not known. The response to medication was less satisfactory for children under 1 year, a result consistent with most other studies. Some uncommon forms and associations of epilepsy were recognised. An EEG was not essential for management but was useful for the diagnosis of syndromes. Treatment was equally effective when commenced 5 years or more after the onset of seizures. The anti-convulsant used for most children was phenobarbitone which had to be discontinued in only two cases because of side-effects. Phenobarbitone has been successfully used to treat epilepsy by primary health workers in rural Africa and this is expected to continue in the future.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.051
Threshold uncertainty score0.102

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.056
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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