Disparities in surgery among patients with intractable epilepsy in a universal health system

To assess the use of epilepsy surgery in patients with medically intractable epilepsy in a publicly funded universal health care system.We performed a population-based retrospective cohort study using linked health care databases for Ontario, Canada, between 2001 and 2010. We identified all patients with medically intractable epilepsy, defined as those with seizures that did not respond to at least 2 adequate trials of seizure medications. We...