Ten-year projection of adult epilepsy burden in Australia

GM Geethadevi; KJ Jensen; P Kwan; E Foster; G Jackson; Z Chen; Z Ademi; DF Abbott; S Amarasekara; A Anderson; R Hughes; D Hutchison; P Lightfoot; S Mullen; KL Oliver; HR Pardoe; M Pedersen; C Tailby; DN Vaughan; A De Weger

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Ten-year projection of adult epilepsy burden in Australia

GM Geethadevi, KJ Jensen, P Kwan, E Foster, G Jackson, Z Chen, Z Ademi, DF Abbott, S Amarasekara, A Anderson, R Hughes, D Hutchison, P Lightfoot, S Mullen, KL Oliver, HR Pardoe, M Pedersen, C Tailby, DN Vaughan, A De Weger

Epilepsia | Published : 2025

DOI: 10.1111/epi.18430

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Abstract

Objective: The World Health Organization's Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Epilepsy and Other Neurological Disorders calls for more epilepsy care centers, but a population-level estimate of epilepsy's projected burden to justify this investment from a societal perspective is lacking. We aimed to project the burden of epilepsy using dynamic life table modeling including number of deaths, years of life, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), productivity-adjusted life years (PALYs), health care costs, and number of people to be screened for surgical eligibility in the Australian adult population (aged 18–80 years) from 2024 to 2033. Methods: A dynamic model was developed to capture incident ..

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