Cost-effectiveness analysis of epilepsy surgery in children and adolescents with drug resistant focal epilepsy at three years in a tertiary care epilepsy center in Thailand

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience(2020)

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Abstract
•Surgery leaded to higher seizure-free than medical treatment in DRFE (52% vs 16%).•Epilepsy surgery leaded to ICER 743,040 THB per 1 QALY gained at 3 years follow up.•Temporal lobe resection leaded to an ICER 36,569 THB per 1 QALY gained at 3 years.
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Refractory epilepsy,Direct medical cost,Direct non-medical cost,Epilepsy surgery,Incremental cost effectiveness ratio (ICER)
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