Delays in time to surgery for minorities with temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1339-1346

  Thompson, Atalie C ^a,b   Ivey, Susan L ^a   Lahiff, Maureen ^a   Betjemann, John P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobectomy; Epilepsy surgery; Hazard ratios; Health disparities; Kaplan Meier

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THERAPY DELAY; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY SURGERY; HAZARD RATIOS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KAPLAN-MEIER; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; EPILEPSY SURGERY; HAZARD RATIOS; HEALTH DISPARITIES; KAPLAN-MEIER;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908051372     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12700     Document Type: Article

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