Comparison of outcome in stroke patients admitted during working hours vs. off-hours; a single-center cohort study.

Introduction: We aimed to disprove an in-hospital off-hour effect in stroke patients by adjusting for disease severity and poor prognostic findings on imaging.

Patients And Methods: Our study included 5378 patients from a single center prospective stroke registry of a large teaching hospital in the Netherlands, admitted between January 2003 and June 2015. Patients were categorized by admission time, off-hours (OH) or working hours (WH).

Sleep disturbances in people with epilepsy; prevalence, impact and treatment.

The interaction between epilepsy and sleep is thoroughly studied and is very complex. This review focuses on prevalence, impact on quality of life and effects of treatment of sleep disorders on the course of epilepsy. Self-reported sleep disturbances in people with epilepsy are about twice as prevalent as in healthy controls.