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Reducing Disability among Epilepsy Patients: Early Referral for Surgery in Medically Intractable Epilepsy
Goals and Objectives: This project aims to identify how early patients with medically intractable epilepsy should be referred for surgery and list recommendations for both health care providers and patients.
Evaluation tools and Methodology: A survey using a Likert scale comprising of questions rated on a scale of one to five will be administered to epilepsy patients and healthcare providers rating Epilepsy surgery and temporal lobe epilepsy and its role in reducing disability. The results will then be collated and analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to yield the outcome.
Recommendations: If two first-line anti-epileptic drugs have been used for a patient with no signs of improvement the chances that an additional anti-epileptic drug would cure the individual are as low as 5 – 10 % (Passaro, 2011). Surgery should not be a last minute decision to cure epilepsy; it should be an early intervention offered as soon as needed to epileptic patients.
Learning Areas:
Clinical medicine applied in public healthOther professions or practice related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Identify when patients with medically intractable epilepsy should be referred for surgery and list recommendations for both health care providers and patients in order to reduce disability seen among this population.
Keyword(s): Mental Health, Disabilities
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I completed this project as part of my student thesis. Among my scientific interests are the advocacy for early referral for surgery in patients with medically intractable epilepsy.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.