Patients and general practitioners assessment of the main outcomes employed in the acute and preventive treatment of migraine: a cross sectional study.

Background: We aim to describe and compare patients and general practitioners' opinions about the different variables related to acute and preventive treatment for migraine.

Patients And Methods: An observational descriptive study was performed. Patients with episodic migraine and general practitioners, from our healthcare area, were invited to answer a survey about the different variables related to migraine treatment.

Time lost due to an attack - a novel patient-reported outcome measure for acute migraine treatments.

Objective: We propose a new outcome measure to assess the efficacy of migraine treatments translating the approach of the Global Burden of Disease studies from a societal to an individual level: Instead of calculating "years lived with disability", we suggest estimating "time lost due to an attack".

Methods: Time lost due to an attack is calculated by multiplying the duration and the degree of impaired functioning during an attack.

Results: Time lost due to an attack, different from other outcome measures, does not just focus on the short-term analgesic effects of treatments, but rather on the improvement of all migraine symptoms and restoration of functioning, also considering therapy-related impairment.