Tianrui Ren, Yingtong Li, Michael Burgess, Sameer Sharma, Maria Rychkova, John Dunne, Judy Lee, Cédric Laloyaux, Nicholas Lawn, Patrick Kwan, Zhibin Chen
OBJECTIVE: In Australia, 30% of newly diagnosed epilepsy patients were not immediately treated at diagnosis. We explored health outcomes between patients receiving immediate, deferred, or no treatment, and compared them to the general population. METHODS: Adults with newly diagnosed epilepsy in Western Australia between 1999 and 2016 were linked with statewide health care data collections. Health care utilization, comorbidity, and mortality at up to 10 years postdiagnosis were compared between patients receiving immediate, deferred, and no treatment, as well as with age- and sex-matched population controls...
November 28, 2023: Epilepsia