GPs' classification of headache: is primary headache underdiagnosed?
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GPs' classification of headache: is primary headache underdiagnosed?
With a high economic, social, and personal burden, headache remains an important health problem. How UK GPs diagnose headache in the UK is unknown. In this study, a large primary care database was used and diagnostic categories were described for 91121 adult patients with new-onset headache, that is, patients who had not consulted for headache in the previous year. Seventy per cent of headaches...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of General Practice
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0960-1643,1478-5242
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp08x264072