Irving P, Al Dahma A, Srinivasan A, Greenwood R
Department of Neurology, Homerton Hospital, Homerton Row, London, E9 6SR, UK.
Seizure. 1999 May;8(3):166-9. doi: 10.1053/seiz.1998.0264.
The results of an audit of the admission of epilepsy sufferers in a UK District General Hospital are presented. The results strongly suggest that most admissions were due to potentially mutable problems including poor compliance with medication rather than to difficult epilepsy per se. It is suggested that consistent support of these patients, for example by an epilepsy nurse specialist, would have perhaps prevented many of these admissions. Care of these patients in hospital failed to achieve standards set by various guidelines for epilepsy management.
本文展示了对英国一家地区综合医院癫痫患者入院情况的审计结果。结果有力地表明，大多数入院情况是由包括药物治疗依从性差等潜在可变因素导致的，而非癫痫本身难以控制。建议通过例如癫痫专科护士等方式对这些患者提供持续支持，这或许可以避免许多此类入院情况。对这些患者的住院护理未能达到癫痫管理各项指南所设定的标准。
