UNASSIGNED: The aims of this study were to evaluate the influence of @entity159 ( @entity159 ) on time-to-surgery (TTS) and surgical outcome in @entity1 with treatment-resistant @entity302 in a universal health care system. The cohort consisted of @entity1 who had undergone resective @entity302 surgery between 2001 and 2013 in Canada. The @entity1 ' postal codes were linked to Statistics Canada National Household Survey data to obtain dissemination area income, which was used to infer @entity159 . Time-to-surgery was defined as the interval from date of @entity302 onset to date of surgery. @entity410 outcome was classified using ILAE classification. The associations between @entity159 and TTS, as well as @entity159 and surgical outcome, were assessed. Two hundred eighty-four @entity1 who had @entity302 surgery were included. @entity1 in the lowest income quintile had a significantly higher TTS relative to the highest income quintile (b=0.121, p=0.044). There were no significant associations between income quintiles and @entity410 -free surgical outcome (odds ratio (OR)=0.746-1.494, all p>0.05). However, @entity1 in the lowest income quintile had a significantly lower odds of an improvement in @entity410 frequency relative to the highest income quintile (OR=0.262, p=0.046). The TTS was not uniform across @entity159 in spite of the existence of a universal health care system. This finding highlights the need to address social and economic barriers for @entity302 surgery to improve access to this potentially curative treatment. Those with lower @entity159 had lower likelihood of improvement in @entity410 control following @entity302 surgery and may require additional support including social and financial support to mitigate the discrepancies in @entity410 control following surgery between @entity159 levels.

Socioeconomic status influences time to surgery and surgical outcome in pediatric XXXX surgery.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'Patients', 'patients'] @entity410 :: ('MESH:D012640', 'Disease') :: ['seizure', 'Seizure'] @entity302 :: ('MESH:D004827', 'Disease') :: ['epilepsy'] @entity159 :: ('MESH:D013226', 'Disease') :: ['SES', 'socioeconomic status']
@entity302 :: (MESH:D004827,Disease) :: ['epilepsy']
