Comprehensive/tertiary care for headache: a 6-month outcome study.

Objective: To assess programwide (outpatient plus inpatient) outcome using prospective measures for the first 6 months of treatment at a comprehensive headache center. Background.-There is little published data on the overall programwide efficacy of comprehensive, multidisciplinary treatment centers for severe, refractory headache disorders.

Comprehensive inpatient treatment for intractable migraine: a prospective long-term outcome study.

This paper describes outcome data for 100 patients with severe, intractable, persistent migraine (chronic daily headache), who were admitted to a comprehensive inpatient Head-Pain Treatment Unit for a mean of 8.5 days. Headache, pain-related behavior, depression, sleep disturbance, functional performance, work status, and medication use were assessed at admission, post-discharge (mean = 2.