The Reasons Of Patients With Headache Chosing The Neurosurgery Outpatient Clinic

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the preference causes of the patients who were admitted to the neurosurgery clinic with complaints of headache for admission in this clinic. METHODS: The study population has been selected from brain surgery department outpatient clinic. One hundred patients with...

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Main Authors: Halil Murat Şen, Adem Bozkurt Aras, Mustafa Güven, Tarık Akman, Ayşegül Uludağ, Handan Işın Özışık Karaman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Galenos Yayinevi 2014-09-01
Series:Türk Nöroloji Dergisi
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Online Access:http://www.tjn.org.tr/jvi.aspx?pdir=tjn&plng=eng&un=TJN-95530
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Summary:OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the preference causes of the patients who were admitted to the neurosurgery clinic with complaints of headache for admission in this clinic. METHODS: The study population has been selected from brain surgery department outpatient clinic. One hundred patients with complaints of headache were enrolled in this study. RESULTS: Questioned the reasons for choosing the neurosurgical and most preferred cause of including word for brain surgery of the brain named (n=54, 54%). Patients were questioned about the information of the neurology and demostrated that there was not any knowledge about neurology (n=66, 66%). CONCLUSION: Headache causes loss of the financial and workforce. Preferences in the wrong departments of the patients, as a result of misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment, increasing the number of hospital admissions. This shows that how important names and introduction of the departments
ISSN:1301-062X
1309-2545