[What organisation to improve health care management of patients with partial refractory epilepsy?].
Epilepsy is a common and serious neurological condition. It may have severe psychological, cognitive and social consequences. A good organisation of medical care is able to improve the quality of care offered to people with epilepsy. Only the Anglo-Saxon literature has attempted to analyse this problem. Two models of management has been described: epilepsy specialist nurse-based liaison service between primary and secondary/tertiary care and department specialized in epilepsy. These types of service are complementary but it is difficult to determine the best model the currently available results.
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Hôpital Henri-Gastaut, Centre Saint-Paul, Marseille, France. nathalie.villeneuve@wanadoo.fr
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