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| John T LangfittSummaryAffiliation: University of Rochester Country: USA Publications
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Cost evaluations in epilepsy: an updateJ T Langfitt
Strong Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Epilepsia 41:S62-8. 2000..PHS panel recommendations provide a useful framework for working toward consistency in the methods for economic studies in epilepsy...- Worsening of quality of life after epilepsy surgery: effect of seizures and memory declineJ T Langfitt
Department of Neurology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Neurology 68:1988-94. 2007..The relative impact of these unfavorable outcomes on HRQOL has not been described... - Health care costs decline after successful epilepsy surgeryJ T Langfitt
Department of Neurology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Neurology 68:1290-8. 2007..There is little information about how health care costs are affected by evaluation and surgery... - Cost-effectiveness of epilepsy therapy: how should treatment effects be measured?John Langfitt
University of Rochester, New York 14642 8673, USA
Epilepsia 43:17-24. 2002..Techniques for eliciting preferences for health effects are reviewed. The limited information on preferences for epilepsy-related health states is described. Directions for further research are suggested... - Early surgical therapy for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy: a randomized trialJerome Engel
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 710 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1769, USA
JAMA 307:922-30. 2012..Despite reported success, surgery for pharmacoresistant seizures is often seen as a last resort. Patients are typically referred for surgery after 20 years of seizures, often too late to avoid significant disability and premature death... - Design considerations for a multicenter randomized controlled trial of early surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsyJerome Engel
Department of Neurology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1769, USA
Epilepsia 51:1978-86. 2010..ERSET was designed to assess the safety and efficacy of early surgical intervention compared to continued pharmacotherapy... - Early surgical treatment for epilepsyJohn T Langfitt
Department of Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, USA
Curr Opin Neurol 21:179-83. 2008..To review recent evidence that can assist clinicians facing the challenging question of when to offer brain surgery for epilepsy... - Health-related quality of life over time since resective epilepsy surgerySusan S Spencer
Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8018, USA
Ann Neurol 62:327-34. 2007..Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) improves after resective epilepsy surgery, but data are limited to short follow-up in mostly retrospective reports, with minimal consideration of other potential factors that might influence HRQOL... - Mapping anterior temporal lobe language areas with fMRI: a multicenter normative studyJeffrey R Binder
Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Neuroimage 54:1465-75. 2011.... - Cross-country measures for monitoring epilepsy careCharles E Begley
School of Public Health, University of Texas 77030, USA
Epilepsia 48:990-1001. 2007..The goal is to provide planners and policymakers with tools to analyze the impact of healthcare services and systems and evaluate efforts to improve performance... - The multicenter study of epilepsy surgery: recruitment and selection for surgeryAnne T Berg
BIOS NIU, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Epilepsia 44:1425-33. 2003..Such information is necessary for providing the epidemiologic and clinical context in which epilepsy surgery is currently performed in the United States and in other developed countries... - Reduction of AEDs in postsurgical patients who attain remissionAnne T Berg
BIOS, NIU, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Epilepsia 47:64-71. 2006..Little evidence guides practice regarding the reduction of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in individuals who achieve significant periods of remission after resective surgery... - Interrater reliability among epilepsy centers: multicenter study of epilepsy surgerySheryl R Haut
Comprehensive Epilepsy Management Center and Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics of the Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Epilepsia 43:1396-401. 2002..We believe that this study demonstrates the feasibility of implementing multicenter protocols for neurologic management, especially those involving localization, as well as protocols combining study results with clinical decision making... - Epilepsy in North America: a report prepared under the auspices of the global campaign against epilepsy, the International Bureau for Epilepsy, the International League Against Epilepsy, and the World Health OrganizationWilliam H Theodore
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Epilepsia 47:1700-22. 2006.... - Stopping antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery: a survey of U.S. epilepsy center neurologistsAnne T Berg
Department of Biology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
Epilepsy Behav 10:219-22. 2007..g., focal pathology in favor of and persistent auras against stopping antiepileptic drugs), it is unclear how well these factors determine seizure outcome in this setting... - ILAE Commission on the Burden of Epilepsy, Subcommission on the Economic Burden of Epilepsy: Final report 1998-2001Charles E Begley
School of Public Health, University of Texas-Houston, Houston, USA
Epilepsia 43:668-73. 2002 - Employment outcomes following resective epilepsy surgeryPeter S Chin
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles and the Greater Los Angeles VA Health Care System, Los Angeles, California 90095 1769, USA
Epilepsia 48:2253-7. 2007..Analyze determinates of employment changes from before to 2 years after surgery in refractory focal epilepsy patients... - Global cognitive function in children with epilepsy: a community-based studyAnne T Berg
Department of Biology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Epilepsia 49:608-14. 2008..To determine the frequency and determinants of subnormal global cognitive function in a representative, community-based sample of children prospectively identified at the time of initial diagnosis of epilepsy... - Do we know quality epilepsy care when we see it?John T Langfitt
Neurology 69:1968-9. 2007
Research Grants
- COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF SURGERY IN EPILEPSY-CEASEJohn Langfitt; Fiscal Year: 2001..Identifying the most valid utilization and preference assessment methods will help future investigators make informed, data-based choices of measures for outcomes studies in patients with epilepsy and other chronic, neurologic diseases. ..