Improving Patient Compliance to Prophylactic Migraine Therapy
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Improving patient compliance to prophylactic migraine therapy.
As in many other chronic conditions, adherence to prophylactic treatment in migraine is probably poor. In chronic diseases, compliance at one year does not exceed 50%. That could explain the low therapeutic gain seen with migraine preventive medications. It also renders difficult the evaluation of clinical trials on migraine prophylaxis since in most of these trials compliance is not properly a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100001931