Association of first antiseizure medication with acute health care utilization in a cohort of adults with newly diagnosed epilepsy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Epilepsy is primarily treated with antiseizure medications (ASMs). The recommendations for first ASM in newly diagnosed epilepsy are inconsistently followed, and we sought to examine whether nonrecommended first ASM was associated with acute care utilization.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of adults (≥18 years old) with newly diagnosed epilepsy (identified using validated epilepsy/convulsion International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification codes) in 2015-2019, sampled from Marketscan's Commercial and Medicare Databases. Exposure of interest was receipt of a non-guideline-recommended ASM, and the primary outcome was acute care utilization (an emergency department visit or hospitalization after the first ASM claim). Descriptive stati

SUBMITTER: Blank LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11671104 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature