Estimating the cost of admissions related to convulsive status epilepticus in the United States of America

PurposeTo estimate the cost of admissions related to status epilepticus (SE) in the USA and to evaluate SE mortality.MethodDescriptive retrospective study using national estimates from the KID’s Inpatient Database (KID) for children and from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) for adults for the years 2007–2012, the largest collection of all-payer, encounter-level hospital care data in the United States. The individual observation in this study...