A Novel Parent Questionnaire for the Detection of Seizures in Children

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 64-69.e1

  Douglass, Laurie M ^a,b   Kuban, Karl ^a,b   Tarquinio, Daniel ^c   Schraga, Leah ^a   Jonas, Rinat ^a,b   Heeren, Timothy ^d   Debassio, William A ^a,b   Stafstrom, Carl E ^e   Heinrick, Ryan John ^b   Ferguson, Chantal ^a   Blumberg, Lauren ^a   Wong, Vanessa ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

children; epilepsy; parent; pediatric; questionnaire; seizure; survey; validation studies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EPILEPSY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCIENTIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RISK; SEIZURES; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTERS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARENTS; PREVALENCE; RISK; ROC CURVE; SEIZURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84952863444     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: 18735150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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