Research Activities Related to the Development of Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Epilepsy.

Accession number;03A0568597
Title;Research Activities Related to the Development of Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Epilepsy.
Author; FUJIWARA TATEKI (Kokuritsuryoyoshoshizuokashinkeiiryose)
Journal Title;Annual Report of the Research on Nervous and Mental Disorders 2002
Journal Code:N20031207
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VOL.;NO.;PAGE.1-2(2003)
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Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;In Japan, there are about one million epileptic patients, and 20% of them are considered an intractable epilepsy. Since the selection of appropriate diagnosis and treatment gives large effect in the prognosis, it is urgent to improve level of the epilepsy medical treatment by national level. In this study group, by parting at 3 groups of epilepsy surgery, adult epilepsy and infant epilepsy, 15 researchers advanced the research in the problem independence. It was tried in fiscal 2002 on the integration of evidence which is indispensable in the guideline preparation.