“In U.S. healthcare we have a general overtreatment problem and headache is no different except that with headaches a lot of the overtreatment is potentially low value and high cost,” said lead author Dr. John Mafi, an internal medicine fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The great majority of people will experience a headache at some point in life, and about one in four Americans have recurrent severe headaches such as migraines. Most evidence-based guidelines for headaches advise conservative treatments such as counseling about stress reduction or avoiding dietary triggers for headaches, and reserve imaging or specialty referrals for “red flag” headaches that stem from neurologic problems, cancer, trauma or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the authors note. To analyze trends in headache treatment from 1999 to 2010, Mafi and colleagues looked at national healthcare databases. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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