Early Planning Helps Ease Transition From Pediatric to Adult Epilepsy Care
Finding a neurologist who feels confident in caring for a youth with complex epilepsy can be a challenge; therefore, it may be helpful to identify an adult provider a year before making the transfer.
Neurology Reviews. 2018 May;26(5):33
May 1, 2018|Epilepsy Resource Center
—Adriene Marshall
Suggested Reading
Andrade DM, Bassett AS, Bercovici E, et al. Epilepsy: transition from pediatric to adult care. Recommendations of the Ontario Epilepsy Implementation Task Force. Epilepsia. 2017;58(9):1502-1517.
Borlot F, Tellez-Zenteno JF, Allen A, et al. Epilepsy transition: challenges of caring for adults with childhood-onset seizures. Epilepsia. 2014;55(10):1659-1666.
Brown LW, Camfield P, Capers M, et al. The neurologist’s role in supporting transition to adult health care: a consensus statement. Neurology. 2016;87(8):835-840.
Nabbout R, Camfield CS, Andrade DM, et al. Treatment issues for children with epilepsy transitioning to adult care. Epilepsy Behav. 2017;69:153-160.
