Rural-Urban Disparities in Epilepsy Outcomes in the United States
Edward R. Bader, William S. Kemball-Cook, Joshua A. Benton, Nathaniel J. Killian, Alexis D. Boro, Emad N. Eskandar · 2026
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Edward R Bader and co-authors examine rural and urban gaps in epilepsy care in a 2026 United States hospital study. Rural patients often live far from neurologists and specialist epilepsy centres, and the team asked whether that distance shows up in outcomes during admission.
Using a national inpatient database from 2016 to 2021, they analysed more than eight hundred thousand epilepsy admissions. Patients from the most rural counties faced nearly double the odds of dying in hospital compared with the most urban patients. They also arrived more often in prolonged seizure emergencies and stayed longer, while receiving brain-wave testing less often. Notably, these gaps faded among patients with private insurance.
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| CREATOR | Edward R. Bader, William S. Kemball-Cook, Joshua A. Benton, Nathaniel J. Killian, Alexis D. Boro, Emad N. Eskandar |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |