Daytime intensive monitoring: comparison with prolonged intensive and ambulatory monitoring.
We evaluated daytime (6- to 8-hour) intensive monitoring in a consecutive series of 166 studies. Overall success rate in answering clinical questions posed by referring physicians was 67%, and attacks were recorded in 55%. Daytime intensive monitoring provides a useful, cost-effective alternative to prolonged inpatient monitoring and ambulatory monitoring.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*