title: Is there an easy way to diagnose migraine? Challenges faced by primary care physicians include lack of time, training.
abstract: Migraine is an important issue in primary care medicine because surveys in North America consistently show that about 6% of men and 18% of women experience these recurrent and often debilitating headaches. Of those identified by surveyors as having migraine, only about 60% had consulted a physician about their headaches, and less than half of these patients reported having received a medical diagnosis of migraine.
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave, Suite A233, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5. john.edmeads@sw.ca
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Edmeads
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D009656:North America / Q000453:epidemiology; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012008:Recurrence; D017678:Sex Distribution