How much does it cost to identify a critically ill child experiencing electrographic seizures?

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 257-264

  Abend, Nicholas S ^a   Topjian, Alexis A ^a   Williams, Sankey ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; EEG Monitoring; Nonconvulsive seizure; Pediatric; Seizure; Status Epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DECISION TREE; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY; SEIZURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CHILD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SEIZURES;

CHILD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SEIZURES;

EID: 84930382814     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: 15371603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNP.0000000000000170     Document Type: Article

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