Can migraineurs accurately identify their headaches as "migraine" at attack onset?

Headache

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 645-653

  Ng Mak, Daisy S ^a,d   Cady, Roger ^b   Chen, Ya Ting ^a   Ma, Larry ^a   Bell, Christopher F ^c   Hu, X Henry ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Primary Care Network   (United States)

^c RTI HEALTH SOLUTIONS   (United States)

^d MS WP39 166 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Headache onset; Migraine self identification; Migraine associated symptoms

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; OBSERVATION; PERIODICITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34248324736     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00783.x     Document Type: Article

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