Long term monitoring in refractory epilepsy: The gowers unit experience

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-310

  Yogarajah, M ^a   Powell, H W R ^a   Heaney, D ^a   Smith, S J M ^a   Duncan, J S ^a   Sisodiya, S M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON EPILEPTIC ATTACK DISORDER; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TELEMETRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MEDICAL AUDIT; PATIENT REFERRAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ANTICONVULSANTS; COHORT STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LONDON; LONG-TERM CARE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATIENT ADMISSION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TELEMETRY; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

EID: 61549122029     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.144634     Document Type: Article

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