Analysis of the aetiology of epilepsy in 3,216 adult patients attending a tertiary referral center enabled by an electronic patient record.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim of this study was to review the causes of the epilepsies in our institution, an adult tertiary referral center for neurology and neurosurgery in Dublin, Ireland. Data was obtained from a bespoke epilepsy electronic patient record (EPR).

Methods

Predetermined search parameters of well-established broad categories of epilepsy aetiology were used to identify patients with a diagnosis of epilepsy attending Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. There were 3216 patients that met the inclusion criteria for this study. We included living patients with epilepsy attending our institution. We then excluded patients with a diagnosis of pure non-epileptic attack disorder and patients found to have idiopathic generalised epilepsy (IGE) (n = 382) from our final cohort. We excluded IGE

SUBMITTER: Delaney S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7442552 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature