Accreditation Criteria
For pediatric centers, are there certain criteria for the VEEG patient report for the patient under 24 months of age, such as duration, recorded seizure, abnormal EEG?
There are no specific criteria for the VEEG report to be submitted for pediatric patients younger than 24 months of age. Please select the other VEEG report studies being submitted from the same month.
Can the VEEG reports required for accreditation be for any continuous VEEGs, or do they have to be from an EMU admission?
For all centers, the VEEG reports submitted for full accreditation must be for a patient admitted to an EMU bed and managed by the EMU team.
How should EMU admissions be counted for the center annual report?
For this question, NAEC is seeking the number of patients admitted to the EMU in the past calendar year. All patients admitted to the EMU for diagnosis or evaluation of epilepsy, seizures or spells, and/or evaluation for epilepsy surgery can be counted. Centers can count EMU admissions from the [...]
