Disease index

partial epilepsy

Neurology · 2007–2011

3decisions
2medicines
0carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision here pre-dates the consumer comments facility, so no input would be recorded either way.

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
lacosamide Treatment, initiated by a neurologist, of patients with partial epileptic seizures which are not controlled satisfactorily by other antiepileptic drugs in… Nov 2011 Not recommended no section in document
zonisamide Treatment of partial epileptic seizures which are not controlled satisfactorily by other anti-epileptic drugs, as adjunctive therapy in adult patients. Nov 2007 Recommended with restriction no section in document
zonisamide Treatment of partial epileptic seizures which are not controlled satisfactorily by other anti-epileptic drugs, as adjunctive therapy in adult patients. Nov 2007 Recommended with restriction no section in document

What the PBS pays

$17M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 159,924 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
lacosamide $15M
zonisamide $2M

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 0 of 0 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.