Abe 19822 | No multivariate analysis. Addresses a different question. An investigation into how the behaviours manifested at 3 years of age have changed after 5 years’ follow-up |
Abend 20113 | Univariate analysis only. Retrospective analysis of children identified from a prospective paediatric stroke registry to define the incidence of seizures as presenting symptom of arterial ischemic stroke |
Adelow 20097 | No multivariate analysis |
Akhtar 200214 | People previously diagnosed with epilepsy underwent ECG to determine how many children may have cardiovascular anomalies. Authors only present the number of people with possible alternative diagnoses to epilepsy. No multivariate analysis |
Alam 201218 | Narrative literature review |
Altunbasak 200720 | 2-year prognosis of epilepsy |
An 201025 | Logistic regression only used for predictors of prognosis |
Anderson 198926 | Addresses a different question |
Annegers 200028 | Univariate analysis |
Annegers 199829 | No multivariate analysis |
Annegers 198730 | Addresses a different question. Prognostic factors of unprovoked seizures after febrile convulsions |
Apakama 200634 | Addresses a different question. Video monitoring in children referred for an outpatient EEG |
Arango 201236 | No multivariate analysis |
Arndt 201638 | Narrative review. No extractable data |
Attumalil 201142 | Variables in the multivariate analysis were only looking at birth and neonatal aspects. No predictors of interest to our review were included |
Austin 201544 | Addresses a different question. The variables included in the multivariate analysis include parent variables, child behaviours problems and seizure occurrence, which are not predictors of interest to our review question |
Austin 200145 | Addresses a different question. The variables included in the multivariate analysis are our outcomes of interest not the predictors |
Austin 201146 | Addresses a different question. The variables included in the multivariate analysis include demographic, seizure risk factors and family risk factors, which are not predictors of interest to our review question |
Bademosi 198950 | Case control study with no multivariate analysis |
Berg 199864 | Addresses a different question. Looks at the influence of the onset of unprovoked seizures in the recurrence of seizures in children after febrile seizures |
Berg 199665 | No multivariate analysis |
Berg 199966 | Identification of differences between children with epilepsy with and without febrile seizures |
Bergamo 201567 | Univariate analysis only |
Bertelsen 201669 | Abstract only |
Beslow 201371 | Addresses a different question. Risk factors for seizures and epilepsy in children. No multivariate analysis |
Beslow 201072 | Addresses a different question. Features of children with intracerebral haemorrhage and predictors of short-term outcomes |
Bessiso 199073 | No multivariate analysis |
Betts 199274 | Addresses a different question |
Bhattacharyya 201476 | Univariate analysis only |
Bonkowsky 200979 | No multivariate analysis |
Bosson 201483 | Addresses a different question. Risk of apnoea in patients with seizures. Multivariate analysis includes age, medicated in the field, seizure on PED arrival and seizure disorder |
Bosson 201484 | Addresses a different question. Risk factors for apnoea not apnoea as a risk factor |
Brown 199692 | Narrative review. No extractable data |
Bye 199495 | Clinical description of complex partial seizures. No multivariate analysis |
Bye 200096 | No multivariate analysis. Ten-year retrospective study of non-epileptic paroxysmal events in children |
Canavese 201299 | Addresses a different question. Clinical and video-EEG-polymyographic study of paroxysmal non-epileptic motor events |
Canpolat 2014102 | No multivariate analysis |
Cansu 2007103 | No association of symptoms. Not clear if patients had paroxysmal events and one of the predictors or not |
Caplan 2004104 | Addresses a different question. Looking at the role of cognition, language, seizure and demographic variables in the psychopathology of complex partial seizures |
Caraballo 2003105 | Univariate analysis |
Caraballo 2011106 | Clinical description of EEG in childhood absences |
Carman 2013108 | Multivariate analysis does not include any predictors relevant to the review question. Mostly looked at socio-demographic, birthweight, consanguinity, and parents’ age and education |
Carvalho 2001112 | No multivariate analysis |
Casetta 2002114 | Investigation of pre-, mid- and post-natal risk factors for cryptogenic and idiopathic epilepsy |
Chahine 2006118 | Narrative review. No extractable data |
Chahine 2006119 | Narrative review. No extractable data |
Chen 2010125 | Univariate analysis |
Chen 2015126 | Univariate analysis |
Chiaretti 2000128 | Univariate analysis |
Ciceri 2011132 | Review |
Covanis 1992139 | Univariate analysis. Early prognostic signs of absence epilepsy |
Dai 2006141 | Narrative review. No extractable data |
Daoud 2003143 | Univariate analysis |
Datta 2005145 | Addresses a different question. To determine which factors contribute most to psychopathology in children with epilepsy. No predictors of interest in the multivariate analysis (sociodemographic, treatments, seizure variables including type, duration and frequency) |
Dennis 1978153 | Book chapter |
Dhiman 2014156 | Clinical description and suggestion for new classification |
DiMario 2006158 | Narrative review. No extractable data |
Ellenberg 1986170 | Addresses a different question. The impact of seizures on children’s intellectual performance |
Ellenberg 1978171 | Addresses a different question. Investigates whether intellectual deterioration is caused by seizures in children |
Emam 2009173 | Addresses a different question. Pattern, risk factors, diagnosis and outcome of stroke. Does not present the results of a multivariate analysis |
Espeche 2010175 | No multivariate analysis |
Espeche 2011176 | No multivariate analysis. Analysis of electro-clinical features and evolution of patients with benign infantile seizures associated with paroxysmal dyskinesia |
Ettinger 1999178 | Wrong population (adults) |
Fattal-Valevski 2013180 | Addresses a different question. Clinical description of paediatric brain tumours that present with seizures |
Fois 1982185 | No multivariate analysis |
Fois 1988186 | No multivariate analysis |
Geelhoed 2005194 | Addresses a different question. Accuracy of models in predicting long-term outcome of epilepsy |
Graves 2012207 | Narrative summary. Recommendations for practice |
Hamati-Haddad 1998212 | Addresses a different question. Incidence of febrile convulsions in an epilepsy clinical population and relates presence and characteristics of febrile convulsions to the localisation of subsequent epilepsy |
Hansen 2015214 | Survey. No multivariate analysis |
Hauser 1970220 | Narrative summary. No extractable data |
Heijbel 1980223 | Univariate analysis only |
Horrocks 2005230 | Addresses a different question. Clinical description of the features of a series of children with anoxic-epileptic seizures |
Hrastovec 2012231 | No multivariate analysis |
Huang 1998233 | No multivariate analysis |
Huguenard 2016236 | No multivariate analysis |
Kamiishi 1994255 | No multivariate analysis. Follow-up of childhood absence epilepsy with a history of febrile convulsions |
Kannoth 2009256 | Wrong population. Includes adults and children (mean age 32 years, range 6–85) |
Karasalihoglu 2003258 | Multivariate analysis does not include variables of interest (for example, history of birth asphyxia, type of seizure, polypharmacy) |
Kim 2012269 | Addresses a different question. Clinical and video-EEG-polymyographic study of paroxysmal non-epileptic motor event |
King 1999270 | Addresses a different question. Looking at whether MRI and EEG would reveal abnormal clinical features of benign partial seizures of adolescents |
Kirkpatrick 1998271 | Narrative literature review |
Koo 1993275 | No multivariate analysis |
Korff 2005277 | Addresses a different question. Eye closure during paroxysmal events and link to seizures |
Kristensen 1992280 | No multivariate analysis |
Krumholz 1983282 | No multivariate analysis |
Ku 2014283 | Long-term (11 years) follow-up of children with febrile seizures. Logistic regression includes sex, urbanisation and occupation as variables. No predictors of interest to our review question |
Lal 2014286 | Univariate analysis only |
Lee 2016294 | Long-term follow-up to identify prognostic factors that can predict epilepsy in children with febrile seizures |
Lee 1989297 | Univariate analysis only |
Mallick 2014315 | Univariate analysis. Epidemiology and clinical features of childhood arterial ischemic stroke |
Matsumoto 1985317 | Addresses a different question. Predictors of long-term outcomes if convulsive disorders |
Matsumoto 2013318 | Unobtainable |
Metrick 1991328 | No multivariate analysis |
Miano 2010329 | Univariate analysis only |
Neligan 2012343 | Prospective cohort study looking at long-term risk of developing epilepsy after febrile seizures (follow-up to 20 years) |
Nelson 1978344 | Addresses a different question. Looking at death, motor disabilities and recurrence of seizure. No multivariate analysis |
Nevo 1995348 | Addresses a different question. Risk factors for seizures not seizures as risk factors. Multivariate analysis includes cerebral palsy, mental retardation, febrile seizures and prematurity as variables |
O’Brien 1981355 | Narrative summary. No multivariate analysis or extractable data |
Ogunniyi 1987360 | No multivariate analysis. Risk factors investigated include febrile seizures, head trauma, previous immunisation, use of psychotropic drugs and stimulants, haemoglobinopathy and syphilis |
Ogunrin 2014361 | Cross sectional case-control study. No multivariate analysis |
Park 2015369 | Univariate analysis |
Patel 2007372 | Univariate analysis. Compares clinical features of non-epileptic seizures between <13 year olds and >13 year olds |
Pavlidou 2013373 | Long-term follow-up of children with febrile seizures. No association of symptoms |
Pearce 1979375 | No multivariate analysis. Looking at risk factors as long-term predictors in children with convulsive disorder |
Per 2014376 | No multivariate analysis |
Plioplys 2014382 | Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Only data reported from logistic regression is somatic psychiatric and adversity variables. No predictors relevant to our review question |
Plioplys 2016383 | Addresses a different question. Risk factors for comorbid psychopathology in youth with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures |
Proulx 1993388 | No multivariate analysis. Addresses a different question. Assessment of BP measurement in children admitted to PICU for hypertensive crisis or status epilepticus to determine whether this can differentiate between the 2 conditions. Reports sensitivity, specificity, NPV and PPV |
Rossiter 1977409 | Univariate analysis only. Descriptive statistics of convulsions in the first year of life |
Saemundsen 2007413 | No multivariate analysis |
Saltik 2003417 | No multivariate analysis |
Sehgal 1979422 | Univariate analysis. Recurrence of febrile seizures |
Seki 1981423 | Univariate analysis only |
Sfaihi 2012424 | Epidemiological study. Univariate analysis only |
Silver 2008427 | Addresses a different question |
Trinka 2002447 | No multivariate analysis |
Ueoka 1980450 | Abstract on follow-up of children with febrile convulsions |
Vaghani 2013452 | No multivariate analysis |
Verduyn 1992456 | Descriptive study. No extractable data |
Verity 1991457 | No multivariate analysis |
Verrotti 2000458 | No multivariate analysis |
Vincentiis 2006461 | No multivariate analysis. Risk factors for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in children already diagnosed with epilepsy |
Visser 2010462 | Investigates the prenatal and perinatal factors that may predict the incidence of paroxysmal epileptic and non-epileptic disorders within the first year of life. No predictors of interest in the multivariate analysis |
Visser 2012463 | No predictors of interest in the multivariate analysis (examples include maternal indicators and birthweight) |
Wakamoto 2011466 | Clinical characteristics of childhood absences |
Wallace 1984468 | Narrative review. No extractable data |
Wallace 1979469 | No multivariate analysis |
Wang 2008470 | Looked at scoring system based on frequency of seizures. Data not relevant to our review question |
Wiebe 2008474 | Systematic review |
Yang 1995479 | No multivariate analysis |
Yilmaz 2013480 | Unobtainable |