Priority rating for community care.

This paper, which is an additional nosokinetics paper to accompany those presented in Aust Health Rev 31(1), reports on priority rating through a standardised community care assessment system, based on screening for functional abilities and incorporating additional indicators of need and risk. Routinely collected measures used to generate a priority rating have proven useful in clinical decision making and active demand management at the service entry point. Priority rating is a step towards a more equitable and efficient assessment system.

Spike morphology, location, and frequency in benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes.

The literature on benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes reports a constellation of neurophysiologic features in selected populations with heterogeneous methodologies. The aim of this study was to determine the specific electroencephalographic (EEG) features (spike morphology, location, and frequency and associated background slowing) in a broad population-based cohort identified through EEG laboratories. The mean spike frequency in the awake state was 9.