Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on epilepsy care in Japan: A national-level multicenter retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on epilepsy care across Japan was investigated by conducting a multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Methods

This study included monthly data on the frequency of (1) visits by outpatients with epilepsy, (2) outpatient electroencephalography (EEG) studies, (3) telemedicine for epilepsy, (4) admissions for epilepsy, (5) EEG monitoring, and (6) epilepsy surgery in epilepsy centers and clinics across Japan between January 2019 and December 2020. We defined the primary outcome as epilepsy-center-specific monthly data divided by the 12-month average in 2019 for each facility. We determined whether the COVID-19 pandemic-related factors (such as year [2019 or 2020], COVID-19 cases in each prefecture in the pr

SUBMITTER: Kuroda N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9348370 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature