An ordinal clinical score predicts seizure freedom after minimally invasive epilepsy surgery.
Adam S DickeyKatie L BullingerDayton GroganMelissa M AsmarAbdulrahman AlwakiAmmar KhederVeeresh Kumar N ShivamurthyRazan R FarajAlexander GrevenJon T WillieDaniel L DraneRobert E GrossPublished in: Annals of clinical and translational neurology (2024)
An ordinal score incorporating eight independent binary clinical variables predicted seizure freedom better on novel data than a model using MTS alone, a full multivariate model, or a backwards selected model. The ordinal score model represents a simple clinical heuristic to identify which patients should be offered minimally invasive laser surgery.