Background Current guidelines set clinical standards for the management of suspected first
seizures and epilepsy. We aimed to assess if these standards are being met across first …

Objectives About 100 000 people present to hospitals each year in England with an epileptic
seizure. How they are managed is unknown; thus, the National Audit of Seizure …

Background Epilepsy is among the most frequent neurological conditions and it is estimated
that approximately 8% of the population experience a seizure at some time in their lives. Aim …

Background and purpose This position paper makes recommendations following an audit of
care provided to people presenting with a seizure to emergency departments (EDs) in …

Background Little is known about the organisation and delivery of epilepsy care in the UK.
The National Audit of Seizure management in Hospitals (NASH) is the first comprehensive …

Care for seizures in an emergency department setting can be variable, and there are
disparities in access to onward specialist referral. The purpose of this study was to evaluate …

There have been very few national audits of the care provided to patients with epilepsy. The
confidential enquiry into maternal deaths in epilepsy and the Clinical Standards Advisory …

Introduction Seizure-related presentations or suspected seizures,(ie epileptic seizures,
PNES, cardiogenic and acute symptomatic seizures) comprise 1.9% of the entire caseload …

Objectives To determine what proportion of our First Seizure referrals reflected true
unprovoked first seizures or epilepsy, and to assess the long‐term diagnostic accuracy of …

Purpose This study investigated the characteristics of patients presenting with the first-time
seizure (FTS) and whether neurology follow-up occurred in a medically underserved area …