Psychiatry versus general physicians: Who is better at differentiating epileptic from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures?

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 379-383

  MacDonald, Tim ^a,b   Hill, Aron ^b   Phan, Thanh ^a,c   Fitzgerald, Paul ^a,d   Seneviratne, Udaya ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Alfred Health ^*  (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

inter rater reliability; psychogenic non epileptic seizures; somatoform disorders; video electroencephalogram

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHIATRY; SEIZURES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 84874624336     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1039856212458462     Document Type: Article

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