Table 1 Professional involved in the treatment of patients with seizure(s) and epilepsy based on participants’ responses
From: Clinical pathways of epileptic seizures and status epilepticus: results from a survey in Italy
| In your hospital which physician | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Is in charge of treatment of patients with chronic epilepsy? (n = 166)* | Takes treatment decisions for patients with seizures (n = 137)* | Takes treatment decisions for patients with status epilepticus? (n = 157)* | |
| Neurologists | 85 (51%) | 72 (52%) | 56 (35%) |
| Epileptologists | 59 (35%) | 29 (21%) | 26 (16%) |
| Usually epileptologists but sometimes neurologists | NA | 33 (24%) | 25 (16%) |
| Usually neurologists or epileptologists and, sometimes, emergency physicians or intensivists | NA | – | 39 (25%) |
| Usually neurologists or epileptologists and, sometimes, specialists in internal medicine, emergency physicians and intensivists | NA | – | 6 (3.8%) |
| Other specialists | 22 (13.0%) | 3 (2.2%) | 5 (3 > 2%) |