Volume 8, Number 6—June 2002
Research
Neurocysticercosis in Radiographically Imaged Seizure Patients in U.S. Emergency Departments1
, David A. Talan*, Gregory J. Moran*, William R. Mower*, Michael Newdow*, Victor C.W. Tsang†, Robert W. Pinner†, and the EMERGEncy ID NET Study Group2
Table 3
Neurocysticercosis and selected demographic characteristics of seizure patients, U.S. sites
| Site | Total seizure patients enrolled | Hispanic patients enrolled (%) | Immigrants enrolleda (%) | Neurocysticercosis patients identified (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque, NM | 107 | 58 (54) | 9 (8) | 6 (5.6) |
| Atlanta, GA | 146 | 4 (3) | 6 (4) | 0 (0.0) |
| Charlotte, NC | 300 | 11 (4) | 17 (6) | 4 (1.3) |
| Kansas City, MO | 164 | 12 (7) | 3 (2) | 1 (0.6) |
| Los Angeles, CA | 91 | 52 (57) | 21 (23) | 9 (9.9) |
| New Orleans, LA | 174 | 9 (5) | 8 (5) | 2 (1.1) |
| New York, NY | 184 | 50 (27) | 54 (29) | 1 (0.5) |
| Orlando, FL | 68 | 6 (9) | 9 (13) | 0 (0.0) |
| Philadelphia, PA | 185 | 20 (11) | 19 (10) | 1 (0.5) |
| Phoenix, AZ | 243 | 90 (37) | 27 (11) | 10 (4.1) |
| Portland, OR | 171 | 8 (5) | 5 (3) | 4 (2.3) |
| 1,833 |
320 (17) |
179 (10) |
38 (2.1) |
|
| aImmigration data were not obtained from the first 490 patients enrolled. | ||||
1 Presented at the 1997 annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Washington, DC, May, 1997.
2 The following investigators and centers collaborated in the EMERGEncy ID NET Study Group: Principal investigator, D. Talan; Coinvestigator, G. Moran; Director of Informatics and Biostatistics, W. Mower; Project Coordinator, M. Newdow; Assistant Director of Informatics, S. Ong; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collaborators, R. Pinner, V.C.W. Tsang, and L. Conn; Executive Committee, D. Talan, G. Moran, C. Pollack, J. Jui, L. Slutsker, R. Pinner; Site Investigators, P. Cheney (University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM), W. Chiang (Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY); L. Dunbar (Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA), K. Heilpern (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA), J. Jui (Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR), D. Karras (Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA), G. Moran (Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA), C. Pollack (Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ), J. O’Brien (Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL), J. Runge (Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC), and M. Steele (University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO).