Journal article
Association Between Psychiatric Comorbidities and Mortality in Epilepsy
G Tao, C Auvrez, R Nightscales, S Barnard, L Mccartney, CB Malpas, P Perucca, Z Chen, S Adams, A Mcintosh, S Ignatiadis, P O'brien, MJ Cook, P Kwan, SF Berkovic, W D'souza, D Velakoulis, TJ O'brien
Neurology Clinical Practice | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS | Published : 2021
Abstract
ObjectiveTo explore the impact of psychiatric comorbidities on all-cause mortality in adults with epilepsy from a cohort of patients admitted for video-EEG monitoring (VEM) over 2 decades.MethodsA retrospective medical record audit was conducted on 2,709 adults admitted for VEM and diagnosed with epilepsy at 3 Victorian comprehensive epilepsy programs from 1995 to 2015. A total of 1,805 patients were identified in whom the record of a clinical evaluation by a neuropsychiatrist was available, excluding 27 patients who died of a malignant brain tumor known at the time of VEM admission. Epilepsy and lifetime psychiatric diagnoses were determined from consensus opinion of epileptologists and neu..
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Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Funding Acknowledgements
The National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1091593), the RMH Neuroscience Foundation, and Monash University.