Overview
- Examines primary and secondary endpoints of headache studies
- Assesses reliability and validation of clinical scales and PROMs
- Applicable to clinical practice and academic research
Part of the book series: Headache (HEAD)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides an overview of planning and examining the methodology, analytic issues, primary and secondary endpoints and outcomes in headache trials. Throughout the book, guidance on how to design a high quality study and how to evaluate which study has relevant scientific qualification is discussed in detail. Clinical scales and patient related outcome measures (PROMs) to exclude secondary headaches, to diagnose primary headache disorders, to evaluate patients’ health-related quality of life, to detect psychiatric comorbidities, to assess patients’ headache-related disability and to monitor patients’ treatment optimization are clearly and concisely outlined in the chapters.
Clinical Scales for Headache Disorders highlights the components for planning an effective headache study including interpretation of primary and secondary endpoints, common clinical scales, PROMs and their clinical reliability and validation. Both clinicians and researchers willfind this book to be a useful tool for their medical and academic practices on headache and migraine.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pınar Yalınay Dikmen, MD is a neurologist, a neurophysiologist working as a professor at the Department of Neurology, Acıbadem University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty and completed a Master of Science degree in Neurophysiology from Istanbul University, the Institute of Health Sciences. Professor Yalınay Dikmen entitled as Fellow of the European Board of Neurology in 2013. Her primary areas of interest and work are clinical headache studies and electrophysiology.
Aynur Özge, MD is Professor at the Department of Neurology at Mersin University, Faculty of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey. She is a co-editor of the books “Headache in Children and Adolescents: A Case-Based Approach”, “Headache and Comorbidities in Childhood and Adolescence” and “Peripheral Interventional Headache Management”, published by Springer in 2016, 2017, 2019, respectively.
Professor Özge has been an active member of the IHS since 2003 and joined the Pediatric SIG in 2004. She was President of the 12th International Congress of Childhood and Adolescence in 2008 and participated in the European Headache Federation Guideline Committee’s studies for the declaration of Guidelines for the Childhood Headache. Professor Özge is a member of MENA Headache education program and President of Global Migraine and Pain Summit for 2020 and 2021. Her primary fields of interest are epidemiology of headache, comorbidity, headache database systems, childhood and adolescent headaches, dementia clinic and caregiving supporting models.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Scales for Headache Disorders
Editors: Pınar Yalınay Dikmen, Aynur Özge
Series Title: Headache
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25938-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25937-1Published: 31 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25940-1Published: 01 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25938-8Published: 30 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2197-652X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 236
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurology