Table 1.
Treatment prior to presentation (percentage of all patients and median (IQR) for hospital sites)
| Patients with diagnosis of epilepsy |
Patients with known blackouts or seizures, but no epilepsy |
Patients with neither prior epilepsy nor blackouts/seizures |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (%) n=2759 | Site median (%) n=154 | IQR by site | Mean (%) n=767 | Site median (%) n=154 | IQR by site | Mean (%) n=1011 | Site median (%) n=154 | IQR by site | |
| Two or more drugs as polytherapy | 33.7 | 33.3 | 23–46 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0–0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0–0 |
| Monotherapy | 48.2 | 47.8 | 38–60 | 17.3 | 12.5 | 0–25 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0–0 |
| No AEDs | 18.1 | 14.3 | 9–23 | 80.3 | 85.7 | 72–100 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 100–100 |
| Been seen by a neurological specialist in the previous 12 months | 37.1 | 38.3 | 21–53 | 30.0 | 25.0 | 0–43 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 0–12 |
AED, antiepileptic drug.