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Monitoring Patients' Response to Acute Migraine Treatment: A Headache Attack Report Form
Author(s) -
Krymchantowski Abouch V.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2006.00357.x
Subject(s) - migraine , tolerability , medicine , recall , migraine treatment , acute pain , recall bias , physical therapy , intensive care medicine , alternative medicine , psychiatry , psychology , anesthesia , cognitive psychology , pathology
A migraine patient’s response to a medication taken for acute headache may be difficult to evaluate. An accurate assessment may be difficult to achieve when one is obtaining the headache history in a clinic, days to weeks after the attack(s) have occurred. Treatment response is subject to recall bias, and influencing that bias are expectations with regard to the achievement of pain-free status, degree of pain relief, time of