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.
D'Amico
Domenico
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Department of Neurological Sciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy.
Tullo
Vincenzo
V
Cecchini
Alberto Proietti
AP
Usai
Susanna
S
Mea
Eliana
E
Bussone
Gennaro
G
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*