New study checks if seizure drug cuts hospital trips
NCT ID NCT06922175
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks back at medical records of 200 adults with uncontrolled focal seizures to see if adding cenobamate to their treatment reduces hospital stays, ER visits, and doctor appointments. Researchers will compare healthcare use before and after starting cenobamate. The goal is to understand if this drug helps lower the burden on patients and the healthcare system.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 200 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2024
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2025
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Adult patients affected by epilepsy with focal-onset seizures not adequately controlled after 2 or more anti-seizure medications (ASMs), due to efficacy or tolerability issues, who start a treatment with cenobamate as an adjunctive therapy (according to SmPC), in real world setting, and have at least 6 months of data on treatment and healthcare resources utilization (HCRU) (if any) prior to cenobamate starting date.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Male and female patients of any ethnic origin ≥18 years old at index date; 2. Patients with a diagnosis of epilepsy with uncontrolled focal-onset seizures despite the previous treatment with from 2 to 5 ASMs who started treatment with cenobamate at index date; 3. Patients presenting at least 1 seizure a month in the last 6 months prior to index date; 4. Patients with at least 6 months of data coverage in the medical records prior to the index date; 5. Patients with at least 12 months of data in the medical records after index date (with a maximum interval between data of 6 months). 6. Patients who give the consent to the processing of personal data according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and/or other applicable local regulation. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients who meet any of the contraindications to the administration of adjunctive ASMs according to their approved SmPC; 2. Patients who started cenobamate within an EAP; 3. Progressive neurological disease, including degenerative CNS diseases and/or progressive brain tumors; 4. Patients with specific syndrome (e.g. LGS and Dravet); 5. Pregnancy or lactation; 6. Patients without self-judgement ability; 7. Patients with substance and alcohol abuse or dependence (except for caffeine and nicotine); 8. Patients participating in any pharmacological or nonpharmacological interventional study starting from 6 months before the index date.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
10 sites in 5 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Consorcio Hosp. General Universitario Valencia
RECRUITINGValencia, Spain, Spain
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Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich
RECRUITINGZurich, Switzerland, Switzerland
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Diakonie Kork, Epilepsiezentrum
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGKork, Germany, Germany
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Epilepsies - The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
RECRUITINGWolverhampton, UK, United Kingdom
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Epilepsiezentrums am Neurozentrum des Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGFreiburg im Breisgau, Germany, Germany
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Epilepsy Unit - Neurology Department Valle de Hebron Hospital
RECRUITINGBarcelona, Spain, Spain
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Epilepsy Unit of the Neurology Department of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos
RECRUITINGMadrid, Spain, Spain
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Epileptologicum
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGHamburg, Germany, Germany
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Institute of Neurosciences NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
RECRUITINGGlasgow, UK, United Kingdom
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Kempenhaeghe - Academisch Centrum voor Epilepsie
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGHeeze, Netherlands, Netherlands