The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 4 July 2019 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30201-9
- An investigation into the association between quality of care quality and outcomes among children and young people with epilepsies in England concludes that
- among adolescents with epilepsy, greater involvement of tertiary specialists in paediatric care is associated with decreased all-cause mortality in the period after transition to adult services.
- Reduced access to an epilepsy specialist nurse was associated with an increase in paediatric epilepsy admissions.
- Data: Epilepsy12 national clinical audit, death registrations from the UK Office for National Statistics and data for unplanned hospital admissions from Hospital Episode Statistics.
- Nuffield Trust blog: Invest early: how to improve the health of young adults with epilepsy
