Diagnosis and classification of headache Journal Article uri icon
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abstract
  • Headache is the most common neurologic complaint. Migraine is by far the most frequent headache type seen by office-based physicians.Migraine remains under-recognized, under-diagnosed, and therefore under-treated in everyday medical practice. With time severely restricted in primary care day-to-day practice, a user friendly approach to assessment of headaches and differentiation into the broad types of "worrisome headache," migraine, tension-type, and others is necessary. A consensus-based, practical, rapid, six essential-question screening technique is outlined.

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    authors
    publication date
  • 2004
  • Research
    keywords
  • Chronic Disease
  • Guideline Adherence
  • Headache Disorders/*classification/*diagnosis
  • Headache/*classification/*diagnosis
  • Migraine Disorders/classification/diagnosis
  • Practice Guidelines
  • Primary Health Care
  • Risk Factors
  • Tension-Type Headache/classification/diagnosis
  • Additional Document Info
    volume
  • 31
  • issue
  • 2