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Practice Guideline
. 2019 May 21;20(1):57.
doi: 10.1186/s10194-018-0899-2.

Aids to management of headache disorders in primary care (2nd edition) : on behalf of the European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache

T J Steiner  1   2 , R Jensen  3 , Z Katsarava  4   5 , M Linde  6   7 , E A MacGregor  8 , V Osipova  9   10 , K Paemeleire  11 , J Olesen  3 , M Peters  12 , P Martelletti  13   14
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Practice Guideline

Aids to management of headache disorders in primary care (2nd edition) : on behalf of the European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache

T J Steiner et al. J Headache Pain. .

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.

Keywords: Burden of disease; Classification; Cluster headache; Diagnosis; European Headache Federation; Follow-up; Global Campaign against Headache; Guidelines; Headache calendar; Headache diary; Headache disorders; Instruments; Management; Medication-overuse headache; Migraine; Outcome measures; Patient information leaflets; Persistent idiopathic facial pain; Primary care; Red flags; Tension-type headache; Translation; Trigeminal neuralgia.

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Conflict of interest statement

TJS, ML, EAM, JO and MP declare no conflicts of interest. RJ has received honoraria as a speaker and/or conducted clinical trials for Allergan, ATI, Electrocore and Pfizer. ZK has received honoraria as a speaker and/or consultant from Allergan, Bayer, Ely-Lilly, Novartis and TEVA. VO has received honoraria as a speaker and/or consultant from Allergan, Pfizer and Takeda and has conducted clinical trials for Amgen. KP has received honoraria as a speaker and/or consultant, and/or received research support, from Allergan, Amgen/Novartis, Autonomic Technologies Inc., Ely-Lilly and Teva. PM is or has been an Advisory Board member for Allergan, AMGEN, Novartis and TEVA and a Speakers’ Bureau member for ACRAF and Elythrapharma, and has received royalties from Springer and travel support from the European Medicines Agency and SpringerNature.

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Diagnostic headache diary
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Headache calendar for follow-up
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The Halt-90 Index
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The Halt-30 Index
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The HURT questionnaire
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