What do patients consider to be the most important outcomes for effectiveness studies on migraine treatment? Results of a Delphi study.

BACKGROUND: The outcome measures most frequently used in studies on the effectiveness of migraine treatment are whether the patient is free of pain, nausea, and free of photophobia/phonophobia within two hours. However, no patient-centred outcome measures are available. Therefore, we performed an on...

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Main Authors: Antonia F H Smelt, Mark A Louter, Dennis A Kies, Jeanet W Blom, Gisela M Terwindt, Geert J M G van der Heijden, Véronique De Gucht, Michel D Ferrari, Willem J J Assendelft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4059644?pdf=render