Drug‐resistant epilepsy in adults: Outcome trajectories after failure of two medications
Choi H, Hayat MJ, Zhang R, Hirsch LJ, Bazil CW, Mendiratta A, Kato K, Javed A, Legge AW, Buchsbaum R, Resor S, Heiman GA. Drug‐resistant epilepsy in adults: Outcome trajectories after failure of two medications. Epilepsia 2016, 57: 1152-1160. PMID: 27265407, DOI: 10.1111/epi.13406.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDrug-resistant epilepsySeizure freedomAntiepileptic drugsAdult patientsEpilepsy typeFocal epilepsyContinuous seizure freedomThird antiepileptic drugTertiary epilepsy centerSeizure-free periodMultiple ordinal logistic regression modelsLogistic regression modelsOrdinal logistic regression modelsClinical factorsIndependent predictorsEpilepsy centersMedical managementFluctuating courseOccipital lobeTemporal lobeEligibility criteriaPatientsEpilepsyTrajectory outcomesOutcome trajectories