Why patients say no: Patient barriers to epilepsy surgery among patients with drug-resistant epilepsy in Singapore.

Epilepsia Open · 2025 · PMC12514368 · PMID 40844479

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.068so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Half (50.0%) of patients who had undergone epilepsy surgery before viewed seizures as non‐disabling, compared to 15% of patients who had never had surgery, but this trend did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.068). 4.

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