Health care costs decline after successful epilepsy surgery
- 17 April 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 68 (16), 1290-1298
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000259550.87773.3d
Abstract
Background: Surgery is an effective, high-cost procedure used increasingly to treat refractory epilepsy. For surgery to be cost-effective, long-term cost savings from reduced health care use should provide some offset to the initial costs of evaluation and surgery. There is little information about how health care costs are affected by evaluation and surgery.Keywords
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