Recommendation ID
NG217/10
Question

Ketogenic diets: What is the short-term and long-term clinical and cost effectiveness of ketogenic diets in adults and children with drug-resistant epilepsy, and what factors affect the long-term maintenance and tolerability of ketogenic diets?

Any explanatory notes
(if applicable)

For a short explanation of why the committee made this recommendation for research, see the rationale section on ketogenic diet.

Full details of the evidence and the committee's discussion are in evidence review 12: ketogenic diets for drug-resistant epilepsy.


Source guidance details

Comes from guidance
Epilepsies in children, young people and adults
Number
NG217
Date issued
April 2022

Other details

Is this a recommendation for the use of a technology only in the context of research? No  
Is it a recommendation that suggests collection of data or the establishment of a register?   No  
Last Reviewed 30/04/2022