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
	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