title: Guidelines and Quality Standards for Adults with Epilepsy.
abstract: Guidelines and quality measures for epilepsy care have the potential to improve the quality of epilepsy care. Quality measures are increasingly used for pay-for-performance. This article describes different guidelines and quality measures that have been used to identify best practices, types of best practices for use in clinical care developed using each of these approaches, and information on how to interpret the recommendations in specific guidelines and quality measures described elsewhere in this issue.
authors.affiliation: South Texas Veterans Health Care System (11C6), 7400 Merton Minter Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA. Electronic address: MaryJoPugh2@va.gov.
authors.forename: Mary Jo
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Pugh
authors.affiliation: South Texas Veterans Health Care System (11C6), 7400 Merton Minter Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
authors.forename: Katharine K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: McMillan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000628:therapy*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Epilepsy; Evidence-based practice; Guidelines; Quality indicators; Quality measures