Table 2.

A Summary of themes, subthemes, and codes for user need assessment.

Themes and subthemes		Codes extracted from quotations
Primary goal
	Enhancing emergency seizure management	Emergency, ICUa, intensive care, seizure detection, management, and effective productivity
	EEGb-based wearable seizure detection technology	EEG, seizure detection, and technology
	Health care decision-making and treatment	Treatment, decision-making, health care, and digital health
	Technological needs in monitoring and predictive analysis	Technology, seizure monitoring, remote monitoring, home monitoring, analytics, diagnosis, differential diagnostics, and predictive analytics
	Cost and resource efficiency	Cost-effectiveness and timesaving
	Future directions and needs	Limitations, challenges, barriers, medical field, and a lack of infrastructure
Phases of digital care pathway for epilepsy
	Development of an updated digital care pathway for epilepsy	Planning, updated care, and emergency care
	Differentiation in seizure types	Differential diagnostics, seizure types, and status epilepticus
	Integration of wearable EEG–based detection	EEG, seizure detection, integration, and data integration
Stakeholders
	Accessibility and use of medical data	Health care data, data analysis, and access
	Decision-making in health care	Decision-making, medical decision-making, health monitoring, treatment decisions, and expert opinion
	Data privacy and management	Confidentiality, patient privacy, patient engagement, patient data, and patient role
	Role of data in treatment planning	Data analysis, health care data, treatment planning, and disagreement

^aICU: intensive care unit.

^bEEG: electroencephalography.