Kale Rajendra
British Medical Journal, London, U.K.
Epilepsia. 2002;43 Suppl 6:31-3. doi: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.43.s.6.13.x.
A simple definition of the treatment gap is the number of people with a condition or disease who need treatment for it but who do not get it. It is an underutilised measure of health care. In epilepsy, it has been estimated by the direct method, during prevalence studies, and indirectly from the amount of antiepileptic drugs consumed in the country and the number of people with active epilepsy. The treatment gap in epilepsy is very high in the developing world. Possible causes of the treatment gap have been listed, but these have not been investigated.
治疗缺口的一个简单定义是患有某种疾病或病症但需要治疗却未得到治疗的人数。它是一种未得到充分利用的医疗保健衡量指标。在癫痫方面，已通过直接法在患病率研究期间进行了估算，并且从该国抗癫痫药物的消费量以及活动性癫痫患者人数进行了间接估算。发展中世界的癫痫治疗缺口非常大。已经列出了治疗缺口的可能原因，但尚未对其进行调查。
