Epilepsy surgery: A therapeutic patient education program.

Epilepsy surgery: A therapeutic patient education program. Rev Neurol (Paris). 2018 Oct 06;: Authors: Catenoix H, Feutrier C, Taffin F, Peverelli R, Rodot M, Robinson P, André-Obadia N Abstract Before the creation of a therapeutic patient education (TPE) program for epilepsy surgery, a needs analysis was conducted with 29 people, including patients (n=13), family members (n=9) and healthcare providers (n=7). Most of them highlighted the psychological difficulties of the surgical process, and the need for considerably more precise information concerning the immediate postoperative period. In addition, several patients and/or family members requested meeting with a patient who had undergone the surgery. The majority of subjects were interested in epilepsy-surgery TPE. These data were important in the creation of our TPE program and, more generally, for the management of these patients. PMID: 30301566 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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