Patient headache questionnaires can improve headache diagnosis and treatment in children.
Christina L SzperkaStephanie WitzmanSvetlana OstapenkoJohn T FarrarJesse Yenchih HsuCarrie P MalavoltaJanille D BunneyErin M BangeCarlyn Patterson GentileGerardo VelasquezBlanca Marquez de PradoMahgenn CosicoMeyeon LeePamela Pojomovsky McDonnellMarisa S PrelackMadeline A ChadehumbeDonna J StephensonElizabeth A KichulaScott C TomaineAndrew D HersheyPublished in: Headache (2023)
Interventions to improve specificity of diagnosis were effective and led to increased rates of prescription of migraine treatments. These results have been sustained over several years. This headache questionnaire was adapted into the Foundation system of EpicCare, so it is broadly available as a clinical and research tool for institutions that use this EHR software.