Review
The Epilepsies: The Diagnosis and Management of the Epilepsies in Adults and Children in Primary and Secondary Care
London: Royal College of Physicians (UK); 2012 Jan.
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Review
The Epilepsies: The Diagnosis and Management of the Epilepsies in Adults and Children in Primary and Secondary Care
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This guideline is a partial update of ‘The epilepsies: the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care’ (NICE clinical guideline 20, 2004). It updates the pharmacological management sections of the 2004 guideline and also includes the use of the ketogenic diet.
Copyright © 2012, National Clinical Guideline Centre.
Sections
- Preface
- Foreword
- Guideline development group members
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 3. Key priorities for implementation
- 4. Guidance
- 5. Audit Criteria
- 6. Principle of decision making
- 7. Diagnosis
- 8. Investigations
- 9. Classification of seizures and epilepsy syndromes
- 10. Pharmacological treatment of epilepsy
- 11. The role of non-drug treatments in the management of the epilepsies
- 12. Information needs of individuals, families, and carers
- 13. Women of childbearing age with epilepsy
- 14. Children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and epilepsy
- 15. Young people with epilepsy
- 16. Older people
- 17. People from black and minority ethnic groups
- 18. The care process for people with epilepsy
- Glossary
- Reference list
- Appendix A. Differential diagnosis of epilepsy in adults and children
- Appendix B. 2004 Scope
- Appendix C. Research Recommendations from 2004 guideline
- Appendix D. Information for women with epilepsy
- Appendix E. Key Clinical Questions
- Appendix F. Evidence tables
- Appendix G. The costs of epilepsy misdiagnosis
- Appendix H. Prognosis for remission of seizures in adults
- Appendix I. 2012 Scope
- Appendix J. The key clinical questions and search strategies
- Appendix K. Summary reference guide to pharmacological treatment
- Appendix L. Evidence Extractions
- Appendix M. Health Economic Evidence Extractions
- Appendix N. GRADE Profile Tables
- Appendix O. Individual Patient Data (IPD) network meta-analysis in epilepsy monotherapy trials
- Appendix P. Economic evaluation of AEDs used as monotherapy in the treatment of adults with newly diagnosed focal seizures
- Appendix Q. Economic evaluation of AEDs used as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of adults with refractory focal seizures
- Appendix R. Economic evaluation of AEDs used as monotherapy and adjunctive therapy in the treatment of children with focal seizures
- Appendix S. Economic Evaluation of AEDs used as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of adults with refractory generalised tonic-clonic seizures
- Appendix T. Unit costs of anti-epileptic drugs for 2012 guideline
- Appendix U. Declarations of interests
- Appendix V. Removed sections from original guideline
- Appendix X. Excluded Study - Reasons
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