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Referral Patterns of Family Physicians May Allow Population‐Based Incidence Studies of Childhood Epilepsy

Summary: Purpose: To evaluate the burden of illness of childhood epilepsy on patient, care giver, and society, representative incidence cohorts must be followed longitudinally. Case ascertainment through pediatricians and neurologists would be a valid method if family physicians refered all new cases of childhood epilepsy. The study objective was to determine whether family physicians' physicians patterns in Southwestern Ontario make it possible to conduct a population‐based incidence study of childhood epilepsy by sampling only from specialists' specialists.