Quality Improvement Opportunities in Caring for Patients with Nonepileptic Seizures
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Quality Improvement Opportunities in Caring for Patients with Nonepileptic Seizures
Background. Patients with nonepileptic seizures (NES) are challenging to treat for myriad reasons. Often patients may be misdiagnosed with having epilepsy and then may suffer unintended consequences of treatment side effects with antiepileptic medication. In addition, patients may be maligned by health care providers due to a lack of ownership by both psychiatrists and neurologists and a dearth...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Psychiatry
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2090-682X,2090-6838
DOI: 10.1155/2014/201575