Headache Clinics : Organisation, Patients and Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780199296569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 216 str.

Hans-Christoph Diener; Jes Olesen

Opis

There are few specialised headache centres throughout the world and those that do exist are often not developed enough to provide the services required. This book takes a look at the current situation examining the organisation of headache clinics, methods of diagnosis and treatment and how the future of headache clinics can be improved. Headache is a huge public health problem and migraine alone cost 27 billion Euros per year in Europe. It is therefore important how the health care service for headache patients is organised throughout the world. Patients seen at headache clinics are more severely affected than those seen in general practice, and headache clinics need to be familiar with a long list of relatively rare headache disorders. Part of the "Frontiers in Headache Research" series, this volume is the first book to focus specifically on headache clinics, their classification and organization, their methods of diagnosis, and their approaches to multi-disciplinary management.

Recenzje

This concise book has to be recommended to any practitioner caring for headache patients.

O autorze

Rigmor Jensen is President of the Danish Headache Society and Research Professor in the Department of Neurology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Hans-Christophe Diener is Chairman and Professor of the Department of Neurology, University of Essen, Germany. Jes Olesen, is Director of the Danish Headache Centre and Professor in the Department of Neurology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.