Application of revised criteria for chronic migraine and medication overuse headache in a tertiary Headache Centre.
Various diagnostic criteria have been proposed for chronic daily headaches. We tested the recently proposed revised criteria of the International Headache Society in a sample of patients with chronic daily headaches, most of whom were overusing acute medications, to assess their applicability in clinical practice compared to alternative classification systems.
Department of Neurological Sciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy.
Domenico
D
D'Amico
Vincenzo
V
Tullo
Alberto Proietti
AP
Cecchini
Susanna
S
Usai
Eliana
E
Mea
Gennaro
G
Bussone
D005260:Female; D020773:Headache Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D051271:Headache Disorders, Secondary / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000209:etiology*