Recommendation ID
NG217/03
Question

Risk prediction tool for all-cause epilepsy-related death: Development of a risk prediction tool to detect all-cause mortality including sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) in people with epilepsy or those who have had a single seizure, and an external validation of a risk prediction tool to detect the probability of epilepsy-related death.

Any explanatory notes
(if applicable)

For a short explanation of why the committee made this recommendation for research, see the rationale section on reducing the risk of epilepsy-related death including SUDEP.

Full details of the evidence and the committee's discussion are in evidence review 17: prediction of death, including SUDEP, in people with epilepsy.


Source guidance details

Comes from guidance
Epilepsies in children, young people and adults
Number
NG217
Date issued
April 2022

Other details

Is this a recommendation for the use of a technology only in the context of research? No  
Is it a recommendation that suggests collection of data or the establishment of a register?   No  
Last Reviewed 30/04/2022