title: [Report of study on transitional medicine for epilepsy: questionnaire survey of pediatric neurologists].
abstract: We conducted a questionnaire survey to investigate the situation of transitional medicine for epilepsy. Among the epilepsy patients cared by pediatric neurologists, 27% were adult patients including some elderly epilepsy patients. Seventy-six percent of the pediatric neurologists felt some difficulties in providing care for adult epilepsy. The main issues were psychiatric/psychological co-morbidity, medical co-morbidity, and a lack of in-patient facilities in the vicinity. This survey demonstrated that the lack of the transitional medicine for epilepsy in Japan is a profound problem, and the factors that hamper transfer of epilepsy patients to adult specialties should be resolved. To solve this problem, it is imperative that the Japanese Society of Child Neurology and Japan Epilepsy Society conduct collaborative activities with three relevant societies; Societas Neurologica Japonica, the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the Japan Neurosurgical Society.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, National Center Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Tokyo.
authors: Go
authors: G
authors: Taniguchi
authors: Masako
authors: M
authors: Watanabe
authors: Yutaka
authors: Y
authors: Watanabe
authors: Mitsutoshi
authors: M
authors: Okazaki
authors: Yoshiko
authors: Y
authors: Murata
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires