TY - JOUR
T1 - Headache service quality
T2 - the role of specialized headache centres within structured headache services, and suggested standards and criteria as centres of excellence
AU - Steiner, T J
AU - Göbel, H
AU - Jensen, R
AU - Lampl, C
AU - Paemeleire, K
AU - Linde, M
AU - Braschinsky, M
AU - Mitsikostas, D
AU - Gil-Gouveia, R
AU - Katsarava, Z
AU - European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Delivery of Health Care/standards
KW - Headache/diagnosis
KW - Headache Disorders/diagnosis
KW - Humans
KW - Pain Clinics/standards
KW - Primary Health Care/standards
KW - Quality of Health Care/standards
U2 - 10.1186/s10194-019-0970-7
DO - 10.1186/s10194-019-0970-7
M3 - Review
C2 - 30832585
VL - 20
SP - 24
JO - The Journal of Headache and Pain Online
JF - The Journal of Headache and Pain Online
SN - 1129-2377
IS - 1
ER -