Management of chronic headache with referral from primary care to direct access to MRI compared with Neurology services: an observational prospective study in London.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the cost, accessibility and patient satisfaction implications of two clinical pathways used in the management of chronic headache.

Intervention

Management of chronic headache following referral from Primary Care that differed in the first appointment, either a Neurology appointment or an MRI brain scan.

Design and setting

A pragmatic, non-randomised, prospective, single-centre study at a Central Hospital in London.

Participants

Adult patients with chronic headache referred from primary to secondary care.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Participants' use of healthcare services and costs were estimated using primary and secondary care databases and questionnaires quarterly up to 12 months postrecruitment. Cost analyses were co

SUBMITTER: Rua T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7569948 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature