Dear Colleagues,

As we close out 2021, we mark several recent milestones for the IFCN. The IFCN and the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE) will publish jointly several clinical practice guidelines in the area of epilepsy. These guidelines will appear as joint publications in Clinical Neurophysiology and in Epilepsia, the organs of the IFCN and ILAE, respectively. The publishers, Elsevier and Wiley, recently achieved an essential milestone, the passage of a joint publication agreement. This opens the gate for the publication of the guideline “Minimum Standards for Inpatient Long-Term Video-EEG Monitoring: A Clinical Practice Guideline of the International League Against Epilepsy and International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology” by Tatum WO, Mani J, Jin K, Halford JJ, Gloss D, Mothersill I and Beniczky S, which appeared online in both journals on December 13, 2021. This guideline identifies standards for performing inpatient long-term video-EEG monitoring (LTVEM). It shows that only limited high-level evidence addressing standards for LTVEM exist. Selected evidence does exist for utility of LTVEM, though comprehensive criteria addressing minimum standards for performance are needed. Clinicians, hospital administrators, and insurers benefit from establishing standards for inpatient video-EEG monitoring applied to patient management.