Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on epilepsy care in Japan: A national‐level multicenter retrospective cohort study

Objective The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic on epilepsy care across Japan was investigated by conducting a multicenter retrospective cohort study. Methods This study included monthly data on the frequency of (1) visits by outpatients with epilepsy, (2) outpatient electro...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Epilepsia open 2022-09, Vol.7 (3), p.431-441
Hauptverfasser:	Kuroda, Naoto, Kubota, Takafumi, Horinouchi, Toru, Ikegaya, Naoki, Kitazawa, Yu, Kodama, Satoshi, Kuramochi, Izumi, Matsubara, Teppei, Nagino, Naoto, Neshige, Shuichiro, Soga, Temma, Takayama, Yutaro, Sone, Daichi, Kanemoto, Kousuke, Ikeda, Akio, Terada, Kiyohito, Goji, Hiroko, Ohara, Shinji, Hagiwara, Koichi, Kamada, Takashi, Iida, Koji, Ishikawa, Nobutsune, Shiraishi, Hideaki, Iwata, Osato, Sugano, Hidenori, Iimura, Yasushi, Higashi, Takuichiro, Hosoyama, Hiroshi, Hanaya, Ryosuke, Shimotake, Akihiro, Kikuchi, Takayuki, Yoshida, Takeshi, Shigeto, Hiroshi, Yokoyama, Jun, Mukaino, Takahiko, Kato, Masaaki, Sekimoto, Masanori, Mizobuchi, Masahiro, Aburakawa, Yoko, Iwasaki, Masaki, Nakagawa, Eiji, Iwata, Tomohiro, Tokumoto, Kentaro, Nishida, Takuji, Takahashi, Yukitoshi, Kikuchi, Kenjiro, Matsuura, Ryuki, Hamano, Shin‐ichiro, Fujimoto, Ayataka, Enoki, Hideo, Tomoto, Kyoichi, Watanabe, Masako, Takubo, Youji, Fukuchi, Toshihiko, Nakamoto, Hidetoshi, Kubota, Yuichi, Kunii, Naoto, Shirota, Yuichiro, Ishikawa, Eiichi, Nakasato, Nobukazu, Maehara, Taketoshi, Inaji, Motoki, Takagi, Shunsuke, Enokizono, Takashi, Masuda, Yosuke, Hayashi, Takahiro
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Cohort analysis Coronaviruses COVID-19 Data collection Electroencephalography Epilepsy epilepsy center Health care hospitalization Hypotheses neurology neurosurgery Original Pandemics Patients Physicians SARS‐CoV‐2 State of emergency Surgery Telemedicine Variables
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Zusammenfassung:	Objective The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic on epilepsy care across Japan was investigated by conducting a multicenter retrospective cohort study. Methods This study included monthly data on the frequency of (1) visits by outpatients with epilepsy, (2) outpatient electroencephalography (EEG) studies, (3) telemedicine for epilepsy, (4) admissions for epilepsy, (5) EEG monitoring, and (6) epilepsy surgery in epilepsy centers and clinics across Japan between January 2019 and December 2020. We defined the primary outcome as epilepsy center‐specific monthly data divided by the 12‐month average in 2019 for each facility. We determined whether the COVID‐19 pandemic‐related factors (such as year [2019 or 2020], COVID‐19 cases in each prefecture in the previous month, and a state of emergency) were independently associated with these outcomes. Results In 2020, the frequency of outpatient EEG studies (−10.7%, P
ISSN:	2470-9239 2470-9239
DOI:	10.1002/epi4.12616