Patient headache questionnaires can improve headache diagnosis and treatment in children

CONCLUSIONS: Interventions to improve specificity of diagnosis were effective and led to increased rates of prescription of migraine treatments. These results have been sustained over several years. This headache questionnaire was adapted into the Foundation system of EpicCare, so it is broadly available as a clinical and research tool for institutions that use this EHR software.PMID:37975482 | DOI:10.1111/head.14643

Source: Headache - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Christina L Szperka Stephanie Witzman Svetlana Ostapenko John T Farrar Jesse Yenchih Hsu Carrie P Malavolta Janille D Bunney Erin M Bange Carlyn Patterson Gentile Gerardo Velasquez Blanca Marquez de Prado Mahgenn Cosico Meyeon Lee Pamela Pojomovsky McDonn Source Type: research