Importantly, the investigators carefully controlled for age, sex, sociodemographic factors, disease severity, and comorbidities in the study. As discussed in relationship to SUDEP, findings in mortality outcome studies are often confounded because of the preponderance of greater disease severity at the tertiary care level. In this study, there is a clear demonstration of benefit of epileptologist care in relationship to mortality outcome, despite the potential bias of a greater disease severity in the group referred for epileptologist care. The findings of the study support the authors’ conclusion about the importance of timely referral to neurology specialists and epileptologists for optimal survival benefit for patients with epilepsy.