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Mortality among veterans with epilepsy: Temporal significance of traumatic brain injury exposure
Roghani A, Wang C, Henion A, Amuan M, Altalib H, LaFrance W, Baca C, Van Cott A, Towne A, Kean J, Hinds S, Kennedy E, Panahi S, Pugh M. Mortality among veterans with epilepsy: Temporal significance of traumatic brain injury exposure. Epilepsia 2024, 65: 2255-2269. PMID: 39119799, DOI: 10.1111/epi.18026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTraumatic brain injuryIndex dateTraumatic brain injury exposureDocumented traumatic brain injuryHazard ratioVeterans Health AdministrationConfidence intervalsTraumatic brain injury diagnosisPost-9/11 veteransDefense Health AgencyCox proportional hazards modelsAssociated with earlier timeProportional hazards modelRetrospective cohort studyHealth careHealth AdministrationHealth agenciesCumulative mortality rateInjury exposureMortality riskMortality hazardCohort studyVeteransSignificant mortality riskHazards model
2013
Validating a natural language processing tool to exclude psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in electronic medical record-based epilepsy research
Hamid H, Fodeh SJ, Lizama AG, Czlapinski R, Pugh MJ, LaFrance WC, Brandt CA. Validating a natural language processing tool to exclude psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in electronic medical record-based epilepsy research. Epilepsy & Behavior 2013, 29: 578-580. PMID: 24135384, DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.09.025.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPsychogenic nonepileptic seizuresPositive predictive valueNonepileptic seizuresDefinite PNESAfghanistan veteransEpilepsy researchNational Clinical DatabaseVideo electroencephalograph monitoringDiagnosis of epilepsySeizure disorderDefinitive diagnosisElectronic health record systemsEpidemiologic dataHealth record systemsPredictive valueClinical databaseElectroencephalograph monitoringPatientsEpilepsyVEEGEpidemiologic researchVeteransRecord systemSeizuresDiagnosis