Do Patients with Recurrent Headaches Attempt Abortive Therapy Before Their Emergency Department Visit?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 245-248

  Fiesseler, Frederick W ^a   Riggs, Renee L ^b   Shih, Richard ^a   Richman, Peter B ^c  

^a MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

analgesia; emergency medicine; headache; migraine; neurology

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ERGOTAMINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; SUMATRIPTAN;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SELF MEDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33947543509     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2006.07.024     Document Type: Article

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