Assessing seizure burden in pediatric epilepsy using an electronic medical record-based tool through a common data element approach.

Objective: Improvement in epilepsy care requires standardized methods to assess disease severity. We report the results of implementing common data elements (CDEs) to document epilepsy history data in the electronic medical record (EMR) after 12 months of clinical use in outpatient encounters.

Methods: Data regarding seizure frequency were collected during routine clinical encounters using a CDE-based form within our EMR.