Guidelines: Diagnosis and management of headache in adults: Summary of SIGN guideline

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7680, 2008, Pages 1231-1234

  Duncan, C W ^a   Watson, D P B ^b   Stein, A ^c  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b Hamilton Medical Group   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALMOTRIPTAN; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ELETRIPTAN; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; NAPROXEN; NARATRIPTAN; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL; RIZATRIPTAN; SUMATRIPTAN; TOPIRAMATE; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE; VALPROIC ACID; VERAPAMIL; ZOLMITRIPTAN; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; HORMONE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; HEADACHE; HEMICRANIA CONTINUA; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAROXYSMAL HEMICRANIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS MANAGEMENT; TENSION HEADACHE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALALGIA; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; LIFESTYLE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HORMONES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 57349179945     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a2329     Document Type: Review

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