Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
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Lead
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Age
16–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Patients first presenting with TLOC
Referred to secondary care for diagnostic evaluation OR given firm diagnosis of syncope in accordance with European Society of Cardiology guidelines for syncope presentations not requiring further investigation
Adult over the age of 16 years
Able to complete iPEP questionnaire independently
Participants do not need to be native English speaker but do need to have sufficient English language ability to complete iPEP without support
You may not be if
Unable to give informed consent to participation in research
Unable to complete iPEP independently
Previous specialist (neurological or cardiological) assessment of TLOC
Criteria for exclusion from analysis:
No firm clinical diagnosis of TLOC (and its cause) at end of 6-month follow-up period
Mixed diagnosis of multiple TLOC-causing disorders at end of 6-month follow-up; we exclude these participants from analysis as they would not have a single reference standard diagnosis, thus their inclusion in development may reduce model performance (since their questionnaire answers will describe multiple different kinds of episode), and in validation there is no principled way to assess performance of the prediction model if they have more than one reference diagnosis. A previous study of patients with suspected seizures in this population found that only 1.1% of patients could not be given a single aetiological diagnosis, so we do not anticipate this resulting in many exclusions.4
Evidence of previous specialist (neurological or cardiological) assessment of TLOC.
