Headache service quality: the role of specialized headache centres within structured headache services, and suggested standards and criteria as centres of excellence

T J Steiner, H Göbel, R Jensen, C Lampl, K Paemeleire, M Linde, M Braschinsky, D Mitsikostas, R Gil-Gouveia, Z Katsarava, European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache

Abstrakt

In joint initiatives, the European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden have described a model of structured headache services (with their basis in primary care), defined service quality in this context, and developed practical methods for its evaluation.Here, in a continuation of the service quality evaluation programme, we set out ten suggested role- and performance-defining standards for specialized headache centres operating as an integral component of these services. Verifiable criteria for evaluation accompany each standard. The purposes are five-fold: (i) to inspire and promote, or stimulate the establishment of, specialized headache centres as centres of excellence; (ii) to define the role of such centres within optimally structured and organized national headache services; (iii) to set out criteria by which such centres may be recognized as exemplary in their fulfilment of this role; (iv) to provide the basis for, and to initiate and motivate, collaboration and networking between such centres both nationally and internationally; (v) ultimately to improve the delivery and quality of health care for headache.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Headache and Pain
Vol/bind20
Udgave nummer1
Sider (fra-til)24
ISSN1129-2377
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2019

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