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Headache Classification
Stephen H. Landy, MD;
Judy McGinnis, RN
Wesley Headache Clinic Methodist Hospital Memphis, Tenn
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(11):943.
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Headache Classification
In today's economic climate there is a special urgency about responsible maintenance of health and sensible treatment of illness. Debilitating head-aches are common, and optimal intervention for early recovery is determined by an effective patient-physician relationship. Expeditious recovery can increase work productivity and limit the cost of health care.
About 45 million Americans experience chronic headaches, and headache sufferers make more than 50 million visits to physicians a year (US News & World Report. July 31, 1989). Headache is the seventh leading Presenting complaint for ambulatory care encounters in the United States.1 A lifetime history of one or more headaches has been reported by 95.3% of females and 90.8% of males.1 The frequency of severe disabling headaches during a lifetime has been reported to be 50.2% for females and 40.9% for males.2 Two percent of the total population have migraines for more than 14 days
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