title: Treating headache from an evidence base: the Cochrane Collaboration.
abstract: The Cochrane Collaboration uses rigorous and widely accepted methods, together with peer-review, to produce systematic reviews of all data of acceptable scientific quality relating to specified aspects of healthcare. Review Groups exist for a number of areas of medicine and surgery, but at present not headache. It is argued that there should be a Cochrane Collaborative Review Group for Headache, and that the International Headache Society should foster its creation. Some principles are set out. The step from establishing the evidence-base to incorporating it in treatment guidelines should be taken circumspectly.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Steiner
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006261:Headache / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012196:Review Literature as Topic