Health care charges for youth with newly diagnosed epilepsy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate first-year health care charges for youth with newly diagnosed epilepsy seen within an interdisciplinary pediatric epilepsy team and examine demographic, clinical, and psychosocial predictors of annual charges.

Methods

Retrospective chart review was conducted to extract medical, hospital, and physician billing data from the year following an epilepsy diagnosis for 258 patients (aged 2-18 years) seen in a New Onset Seizure Clinic between July 2011 and December 2012. Descriptive statistics were used to estimate per-patient total first-year charges and health care utilization patterns (e.g., hospitalizations, emergency department visits, outpatient visits). Univariate analyses examined differences in health care charges between demographic, clinical, and p

SUBMITTER: Ryan JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4540245 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature