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Table 1 Definitions of rare diseases for each country

From: Design, implementation, and evaluation of the computer-aided clinical decision support system based on learning-to-rank: collaboration between physicians and machine learning in the differential diagnosis process

Country

Prevalence

Source

The EU

< 1 person in 2000

EU research on rare diseases

Japan

Not defined

Act on Medical Care for Patients with Intractable Diseases

The UK

< 1 person in 2000

The UK Rare Diseases Framework

The US

< 50,000 persons in the US

Rare Diseases Act of 2002