Education May Help Epilepsy Patients Avoid the ER

Educational materials have the potential to reduce costly emergency room visits according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Oklahoma provided handouts and a DVD to epilepsy patients at an adult neurology clinic. They found that emergency room visits were significantly less frequent according to self-reported data following the intervention. Although the study did not use a control group who received no outpatient materials, these findings suggest that patient education may be a tool to reduce health-care costs for people with epilepsy.

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