Proposal of a clinical care pathway for quality and safe management of headache patients: a consensus study report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Headache is one of the most prevalent and disabling conditions. Its optimal management requires a coordinated and comprehensive response by health systems, but there is still a wide variability that compromises the quality and safety of the care process.

Purpose

To establish the basis for designing a care pathway for headache patients through identifying key subpathways in the care process and setting out quality and clinical safety standards that contribute to providing comprehensive, adequate and safe healthcare.

Method

A qualitative research study based on the consensus conference technique. Eleven professionals from the Spanish National Health System participated, seven of them with clinical experience in headache and four specialists in healthcare mana

SUBMITTER: Pascual J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7604819 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature