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John T. Langfitt
Researcher at University of Rochester
Publications - 77
Citations - 6220
John T. Langfitt is an academic researcher from University of Rochester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Epilepsy & Epilepsy surgery. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 73 publications receiving 5413 citations. Previous affiliations of John T. Langfitt include Mayo Clinic & University of Rochester Medical Center.
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Indications and expectations for neuropsychological assessment in routine epilepsy care: Report of the ILAE Neuropsychology Task Force, Diagnostic Methods Commission, 2013-2017.
Sarah J. Wilson,Sallie Baxendale,William B. Barr,Sherifa A. Hamed,John T. Langfitt,Séverine Samson,Masako Watanabe,Gus A. Baker,Christoph Helmstaedter,Bruce P. Hermann,Mary Lou Smith +10 more
TL;DR: The recommendations endorse routine screening of cognition, mood, and behavior in new-onset epilepsy, and describe the range of situations when more detailed, formal neuropsychological assessment is indicated.
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Relationships Between Seizure Severity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Refractory Localization-Related Epilepsy
Barbara G. Vickrey,Anne T. Berg,Michael R. Sperling,Shlomo Shinnar,John T. Langfitt,Carl W. Bazil,Thaddeus S. Walczak,Steven V. Pacia,Sehyun Kim,Susan S. Spencer +9 more
TL;DR: Evaluation of relationships between self‐report measures of seizure severity and health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) in people with refractory localization‐related epilepsy finds no clear relationship between these measures and well-being.
Clinical Research Relationships Between Seizure Severity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Refractory Localization-Related Epilepsy
Barbara G. Vickrey,Anne T. Berg,Michael R. Sperling,SShlomo Shinnar,John T. Langfitt,Carl W. Bazil,Thaddeus S. Walczak,Steven Pacia,Sehyun Kim,Susan S. Spencer +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the relationship between selfreport measures of seizure severity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in people with refractory localization-related epilepsy.
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Health care costs décline after successful epilepsy surgery
John T. Langfitt,Robert G. Holloway,Michael P. McDermott,Susan Messing,K. Sarosky,Anne T. Berg,Susan S. Spencer,Barbara G. Vickrey,Michael R. Sperling,Carl W. Bazil,Shlomo Shinnar +10 more
TL;DR: Costs remain stable over 2 years post-evaluation in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy whose seizures persist, but patients who become seizure free after surgery use substantially less health care than before surgery.
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Cost‐Effectiveness of Anterotemporal Lobectomy in Medically Intractable Complex Partial Epilepsy
TL;DR: The value of high‐cost health technologies is being increasingly scrutinized by providers of health care and an understanding of the costs and outcomes of high-technology epilepsy care is required to ensure efficient resource allocation.