Enhancing sudden unexpected death in epilepsy ( <scp>SUDEP</scp> ) research through development of common data elements

Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) is a fatal complication of epilepsy. Preclinical research holds promise in understanding and preventing SUDEP, but its impacts are limited due to a lack of data standardization and translation among research groups. Common data elements (CDEs) are essential pieces of information for a certain field of study. CURE Epilepsy brought together a team of researchers to develop CDEs that could serve as a blueprint for all SUDEP preclinical researchers. This paper describes the SUDEP Core and Death-Related CDEs to be used with data elements presented in an accompanying paper.