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Quantitative Assessment in Epilepsy Care

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Editors:
  1. Harry Meinardi

    1. Instituut voor Epilepsiebestrijding, Heemstede, The Netherlands

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  2. Joyce A. Cramer

    1. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, USA
      Yale University, New Haven, USA

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  3. Gus A. Baker

    1. The Walton Centre, Liverpool, UK

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  4. Antonio Martins Silva

    1. Hospital Geral de Santo António and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series A: (NSSA, volume 255)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Principles and Practice of Clinimetrics in Epilepsy

    • Alvan R Feinstein
    Pages 1-10

  3. Statistical Aspects of the Measurement of Clinical Care in Epilepsy

    • A L Johnson
    Pages 11-28

  4. Seizure Frequency as Treatment Effect Parameter: General Considerations

    • M. W. Lammers, H. Meinardi
    Pages 29-33

  5. Seizure Frequency as Treatment Effect Parameter

    • A. Martins da Silva, E. Lourenço, J. M. Nunes, D. Mendonça
    Pages 35-42

  6. Seizure Frequency as Treatment Effect Parameter in Epileptic Patients: A Critical Appraisal of the Clinimetric Approach

    • A. Keyser
    Pages 43-47

  7. Seizure Severity as Treatment Effect Parameter

    • César Viteri, José Manuel Martínez-Lage
    Pages 49-54

  8. Quantitative Approaches to Seizure Severity

    • Joyce A. Cramer, Richard H. Mattson
    Pages 55-71

  9. General Discussion of the Assessment and Representation of the Elements Seizure Frequency and Seizure Severity

    • Harry Meinardi, Joyce A. Cramer, Gus A. Baker, Antonio Martins da Silva
    Pages 73-81

  10. Health Status in Epilepsy Care

    • Aristides Kazis, Sevasti Bostantjopoulou
    Pages 83-93

  11. Health Status in Epilepsy Care: Clinimetric Approach

    • P. Jallon
    Pages 95-101

  12. Drug Choice and Replacement

    • D. G. A. Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité
    Pages 103-107

  13. Individualization of Antiepileptic Drug Therapy

    • Y. A. Hekster, D. J. P. Wijsman, E. W. Wuis, T. B. Vree, H. Meinardi
    Pages 109-116

  14. On the Reporting of Adverse Drug Events

    • M. W. Lammers, H. Meinardi
    Pages 117-122

  15. Quantitative Assessment of Adverse Drug Effects

    • Richard H. Mattson, Joyce A. Cramer
    Pages 123-135

  16. Conventional and Clinimetric Approaches to Individualization of Antiepileptic Drug Therapy

    • John S. Duncan
    Pages 137-143

  17. Psychosocial Consequences of Epilepsy

    • Jan Vermeulen, Raphael Canger
    Pages 145-153

  18. A Clinimetric Approach for Psychosocial Effects

    • Albert P. Aldenkamp
    Pages 155-161

  19. General Discussion of the Part Played by Health Status, Adverse Effects of Treatment and Psychosocial Factors in the Construction of indexes

    • Harry Meinardi, Joyce A. Cramer, Gus A. Baker, Antonio Martins da Silva
    Pages 163-170

  20. Global Assessments in Epilepsy

    • David Chadwick, Ann Jacoby
    Pages 171-176
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About this book

Advances in epilepsy in recent decades have allowed for improved algorithms for diagnosis and a common understanding of terminology with the development of the International Classifications of Seizures and the Epilepsies. Nevertheless, no common system exists for the estimation of epilepsy severity or its impact on quality of life. Therefore, epileptologists lack the ability to make quantitative assessments of individual patients for comparison of care or for meta-analyses in clinical trials. This book on the Quantitative Assessment of Epilepsy Care approaches this omission by addressing the potential application of clinimetrics within the framework of epilepsy treatment. Clinimetrics is a fast growing discipline concerned with the quantification of clinical symptoms with respect to decision making relating to diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. These methods allow for the development and validation of clinical scoring systems. For example, the Glasgow Coma Scale is widely used. As a chronic disorder, epilepsy would benefit from clinimetric methodology to create uniformity and to allow for comparisons among evaluations. In addition, epileptologists have not yet developed assessments of health related quality of life to define the overall condition of the chronic epilepsy patient and various therapeutic endpoints. While clini­ metric tools are essential for research, they will also be useful in clinical practice for the care of individual patients by documenting status and changes over time. This treatise will provide critical analyses of whether existing rating scales and techniques are valid to use, and which types of scales and techniques require further development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituut voor Epilepsiebestrijding, Heemstede, The Netherlands

    Harry Meinardi

  • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, USA

    Joyce A. Cramer

  • Yale University, New Haven, USA

    Joyce A. Cramer

  • The Walton Centre, Liverpool, UK

    Gus A. Baker

  • Hospital Geral de Santo António and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Antonio Martins Silva

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantitative Assessment in Epilepsy Care

  • Editors: Harry Meinardi, Joyce A. Cramer, Gus A. Baker, Antonio Martins Silva

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2990-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44620-7Published: 30 September 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6302-6Published: 18 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-2990-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 214

  • Topics: Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuropsychology

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