Expert Opinion Determining Triptan Preference for the Individual Patient
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Prescribing a triptan for an individual patient is really conducting a triptan preference trial with an n of 1. With the availability of seven triptans, it would not be practical, however, to give the patient three samples of each oral triptan and have them take each triptan when headaches are of a similar degree of intensity (for a total of 21 trials) and then rate their preferences. This is a challenging problem.
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