Aids to management of headache disorders in primary care (2nd edition)
EHF/Lifting The Burden · 2019 · Europe
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- Authors
- T J Steiner, R Jensen, Z Katsarava et al.
- Title
- Aids to management of headache disorders in primary care (2nd edition)
- Journal
- The Journal of Headache and Pain, 2019
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Changes
- Verbatim excerpts; formatting adapted
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Abstract
The Aids to Management are a product of the Global Campaign against Headache, a worldwide programme of action conducted in official relations with the World Health Organization. Developed in partnership with the European Headache Federation, they update the first edition published 11 years ago.
The common headache disorders (migraine, tension-type headache and medication-overuse headache) are major causes of ill health. They should be managed in primary care, firstly because their management is generally not difficult, and secondly because they are so common. These Aids to Management, with the European principles of management of headache disorders in primary care as the core of their content, combine educational materials with practical management aids. They are supplemented by translation protocols, to ensure that translations are unchanged in meaning from the English-language originals.
The Aids to Management may be individually downloaded and, as is the case for all products of the Global Campaign against Headache, are available without restriction for non-commercial use.
Electronic supplementary material: The online version of this article (10.1186/s10194-018-0899-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Contents of the original publication
The section headings of the original.
- Preface
- European principles of management of headache disorders in primary care
- Introduction
- Development process
- The principles
- Guides to diagnosis
- Guides to management
- Guides to referral
- Instruments and other materials to aid diagnosis and management of headache disorders in primary care
- Introduction
- Diagnostic criteria for headache disorders in primary care: the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition (ICHD-3) – abbreviated form
- Headache diary and calendar to aid diagnosis and follow-up in primary care
- The Headache-Attributed Lost Time (HALT) Indices: measures of burden for headache management in primary care
- The Headache Under-Response to Treatment (HURT) questionnaire: a guide to follow-up in primary care
- Patient information leaflets to aid headache management in primary care (2nd edition)
- Introduction
- Lifting The Burden’s patient information leaflets
- Translation, and the preservation of original meaning, of materials developed to improve headache management
- Introduction
- Lifting The Burden’s approach, and three translation protocols
- Resources for translation of Lifting The Burden documents
- Additional files
- Publisher’s Note
- Contributor Information
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