Primary treatment gap among adults with epilepsy: A cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite recommendations to initiate antiseizure medication treatment once the diagnosis of epilepsy is confirmed, a certain proportion of patients with epilepsy who should receive antiseizure medication treatment remain untreated. We aimed to evaluate the rate of and the reasons for the treatment gap in patients with epilepsy who were referred to their first visit in our epilepsy clinic.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the computerized database and the medical records of all the patients with epilepsy who had their first visit in our outpatient epilepsy clinic during a 10-year period (2012-2021).

Results

Forty-nine (6.5%) of 746 patients with epilepsy were not treated with antiseizure medications: 27 (3.6%) were nonadherent to treatment, 12 (1.6%) patien

SUBMITTER: Soboh H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11651376 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature