[Health-related quality-of-life assessment for patients with refractory partial epilepsy].

Method: A selection of 108 abstracts using MEDLINE, providing 20 articles for analysis, was completed by the author's documentation database.

Results And Conclusion: Few reports have used QoL measures to assess outcome. The QOLIE-89 and 31 show the best validity assessment, although there is little information about the face validity according to the patients' point of view.

[Estimating the specificity of a University Hospital Centre. Example of the colonoscopy (EPAGE survey)].

Objective: The specificity of a University Hospital Centre is usually assessed from its teaching and research capacity. The EPAGE survey, an instrument used to help decision making available on the Internet, permitted us to compare the prescription of a routine exploration, gastrointestinal endoscopy, between the University Hospital Center in Clermont-Ferrand and the Hospital Centre in Moulins. The aim was to demonstrate the differences in daily practice between these two geographically close hospital centres and hence to underline the specificity of a University Hospital Centre that is not taken into account in the financing systems of such hospitals.