Essential services, personnel, and facilities in specialized epilepsy centers-Revised 2010 guidelines

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2322-2333

  Labiner, David M ^a   Bagic, Anto I ^b   Herman, Susan T ^c   Fountain, Nathan B ^d   Walczak, Thaddeus S ^e   Gumnit, Robert J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy center; Epilepsy specialty care; Guidelines

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EPILEPSY; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HEALTH FACILITY PLANNING; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78349300243     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02648.x     Document Type: Review

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