A selection of the investigations and actions recorded for patients presenting with seizure (percentage of all patients and median (IQR) for hospital sites; excludes 40 patients who died in hospital)
| 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 | |
| ECG | 68.6 | 69.6 | 57–83 | 79.3 | 85.7 | 67–100 | 86.8 | 100.0 | 80–100 |
| Either CT or MRI | 22.4 | 19.0 | 10–31 | 32.9 | 33.3 | 13–56 | 55.8 | 54.5 | 33–78 |
| Admission | 55.8 | 50.0 | 38–82 | 51.6 | 50.0 | 28–94 | 65.0 | 66.7 | 43–100 |
| Management of future seizures discussed with the patient or carers | 28.0 | 18.6 | 10–38 | 26.8 | 20.0 | 0–39 | 26.7 | 20.0 | 0–43 |
| Any epilepsy specialist referral as an outpatient | 43.6 | 42.9 | 27–59 | 59.0 | 60.0 | 41–80 | 54.9 | 54.5 | 38–75 |
| Seen by epilepsy specialist at/in the hospital | 21.6 | 18.2 | 9–33 | 18.9 | 12.5 | 0–33 | 19.1 | 10.0 | 0–25 |
| Either or both of the two rows above | 48.8 | 50.0 | 30–67 | 63.3 | 66.7 | 44–83 | 60.6 | 62.5 | 43–80 |