Choosing wisely in headache medicine: The american headache society's list of five things physicians and patients should question

Headache

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1651-1659

  Loder, Elizabeth ^a   Weizenbaum, Emma ^b   Frishberg, Benjamin ^c   Silberstein, Stephen ^d  

^a Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Neurology Center   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choosing Wisely; headache; imaging; medication overuse; migraine surgery

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BUTALBITAL; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; IONIZING RADIATION; LIVER INJURY; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; NOSE SEPTUM RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECIDIVISM; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGGER POINT; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

CHOOSING WISELY; HEADACHE; IMAGING; MEDICATION OVERUSE; MIGRAINE SURGERY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HEADACHE; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888302934     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/head.12233     Document Type: Article

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