For every 1 percent increase in the proportion of seizure-free epilepsy-treated patients, there was a 0.43 percent reduction in the number of patients with at least one epilepsy-related emergency hospitalization. The cost savings were found to mainly be due to reductions in emergency admissions and outpatient visits, rather than to lower costs for patients treated in hospital or to reductions in elective admissions. In contrast, they found little evidence of savings arising in other specialities.