E-diary use in clinical headache practice: A prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To determine whether our E-diary can be used to diagnose migraine and provide more reliable migraine-related frequency numbers compared to patients' self-reported estimates.

Methods

We introduced a self-developed E-diary including automated algorithms differentiating headache and migraine days, indicating whether a patient has migraine. Reliability of the E-diary diagnosis in combination with two previously validated E-questionnaires was compared to a physician's diagnosis as gold standard in headache patients referred to the Leiden Headache Clinic (n = 596). In a subset of patients with migraine (n = 484), self-estimated migraine-related frequencies were compared to diary-based results.

Results

The first migraine screening approach including an E-headache questio

SUBMITTER: van Casteren DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8504420 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature