A decision support simulation model for bed management in healthcare.

Purpose: In order to provide access to care in a timely manner, it is necessary to effectively manage the allocation of limited resources. such as beds. Bed management is a key to the effective delivery of high quality and low-cost healthcare.

Language dysfunction after frontal lobe partial seizures.

Postictal language delay (PILD) patterns can lateralize temporal lobe complex partial seizures (CPS). The authors studied PILD in 24 patients with 118 frontal lobe CPS. Prolonged PILD occurred in only 7% of CPS confined to the dominant frontal lobe compared with 91% of CPS that started as frontal and spread to the dominant temporal lobe (p = 0.

Psychopathology and quality of life: psychogenic non-epileptic seizures versus epilepsy.

Background: HRQOL is lower in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) than in epilepsy patients. Although psychopathology may reduce HRQOL, it is not known whether patients with PNES and epilepsy are similarly affected. We aimed to compare the relationship between psychopathology and HRQOL in PNES and treatment resistant epilepsy.

Quality of life in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.

Purpose: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs) are events that alter or seem to alter the neurologic function and, in their appearance, resemble epileptic seizures (ESs). In patients with ESs the psychological and medical aspects of epilepsy greatly influence the health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The relation between these factors and PNESs is not well established.

Four-year incidence of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in adults in hamilton county, OH.

In this retrospective study, the incidence of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in Hamilton County, OH, between 1995 and 1998 was determined. The mean incidence of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures was 3.03/100,000, with the highest incidence in 1998 (4.