Search Results - subject:"Epilepsy"

The Cost Effectiveness of Newer Epilepsy Treatments: A Review of the Literature on Partial-Onset Seizures

Bolin, Kristian; Forsgren, Lars - In: PharmacoEconomics 30 (2012) 10, pp. 903-923

Background and Objective:Background and Objective: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting …

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Developing a health state classification system from NEWQOL for epilepsy using classical psychometric techniques and Rasch analysis: a technical report

Mulhern, B; Rowen, D; Brazier, J; Jacoby, A; Marson, T; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

usually used to produce these values, but there are concerns about their relevance and sensitivity in epilepsy. This study … develops a health state classification system for epilepsy from the NEWQOL battery, a validated questionnaire measuring QoL in … epilepsy. The classification system will be amenable to valuation for calculating QALYs. Methods: Factor and other psychometric …

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Multifractal parameters as an indication of different physiological and pathological states of the human brain

Dutta, Srimonti; Ghosh, Dipak; Samanta, Shukla; Dey, Santanu - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 396 (2014) C, pp. 155-163

This paper presents a study on multifractal parameters of EEG patterns on the human brain. Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis was applied to human EEG for normal and epileptic patients in different states. The results show that the degree of multifractality of EEG for patients in an...

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Epilepsy in Sweden: health care costs and loss of productivity—a register-based approach

Bolin, Kristian; Lundgren, Anders; Berggren, Fredrik; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 13 (2012) 6, pp. 819-826

The per-patient cost of epilepsy is substantial. Thus, even though the prevalence of the illness is relatively small …, the aggregated cost that epilepsy incurs on society is significant. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012 …

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Rufinamide: A Pharmacoeconomic Profile of its Use as Adjunctive Therapy in Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

McCormack, Paul L. - In: PharmacoEconomics 30 (2012) 3, pp. 247-256

Rufinamide (Inovelon), a triazole derivative, is an oral antiepileptic drug approved in the EU as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) in patients aged ≥4 years. The efficacy of oral rufinamide as adjunctive therapy in patients with LGS...

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Bifurcation analysis of the Poincaré map function of intracranial EEG signals in temporal lobe epilepsy patients

Amiri, Mahmood; Davoodi-Bojd, Esmaeil; Bahrami, Fariba; … - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 81 (2011) 11, pp. 2471-2491

suffering from medically intractable focal epilepsy. Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) is utilized for parameter estimation of the …

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Economic Burden of Epilepsy among the Privately Insured in the US

Ivanova, Jasmina I.; Birnbaum, Howard G.; Kidolezi, Yohanne - In: PharmacoEconomics 28 (2010) 8, pp. 675-685

Background: The direct cost burden of epilepsy in the US from a third-party payer perspective has not been evaluated …. Furthermore, no study has quantified the indirect (work-loss) cost burden of epilepsy from an employer perspective in the US …. Objective: To assess the annual direct costs for privately insured US patients diagnosed with epilepsy, and indirect costs for a …

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Cross-correlation markers in stochastic dynamics of complex systems

Panischev, O. Yu.; Demin, S.A.; Bhattacharya, J. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 21, pp. 4958-4969

The neuromagnetic activity (magnetoencephalogram, MEG) from healthy human brain and from an epileptic patient against chromatic flickering stimuli has been earlier analyzed on the basis of a memory functions formalism (MFF). Information measures of memory as well as relaxation parameters...

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Cost of Epilepsy: A Systematic Review

Strzelczyk, Adam; Reese, Jens Peter; Dodel, Richard; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 26 (2008) 6, pp. 463-476

The objective of this review was to overview published cost-of-illness (COI) studies of epilepsy and their … methodological approaches. Epilepsy imposes a substantial burden on individuals and society as a whole. The mean prevalence of … epilepsy is estimated at 0.52% in Europe, 0.68% in the US, and peaks up to 1.5% in developing countries. Estimation of the …

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Use of Collaboration to Improve Outcomes in Chronic Disease: An Overview

Gilbert, Monica; Staley, Carole; Lydall-Smith, Sharryn; … - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 16 (2008) 6, pp. 381-390

Chronic disease and collaboration (people The aim of this article is to outline four approaches to collaboration - epidemiologically focused collaborations, research-based consortiums, organizational-change collaborations, and patient-focused disease management strategies - currently employed to...

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