Pediatric outpatients with epilepsy, diagnosed according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes [6], were divided into those with epilepsy (G40 in ICD-10) and those with status epilepticus (G41 in ICD-10). This study population consisted of outpatients aged 0–17 years with epilepsy who visited any of the 123 acute diagnostic procedure combination hospitals that provide administrative data to Medical Data Vision Co., Ltd. The patients included in this study were those who presented to any of these hospitals during the period from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2019. The data were used as of June 2021.
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