Headache service quality: the role of specialized headache centres within structured headache services, and suggested standards and criteria as centres of excellence

Autor: T. J. Steiner, H. Göbel, R. Jensen, C. Lampl, K. Paemeleire, M. Linde, M. Braschinsky, D. Mitsikostas, R. Gil-Gouveia, Z. Katsarava, on behalf of the European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: The Journal of Headache and Pain, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1129-2369
1129-2377
DOI: 10.1186/s10194-019-0970-7
Popis: Abstract In joint initiatives, the European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden have described a model of structured headache services (with their basis in primary care), defined service quality in this context, and developed practical methods for its evaluation. Here, in a continuation of the service quality evaluation programme, we set out ten suggested role- and performance-defining standards for specialized headache centres operating as an integral component of these services. Verifiable criteria for evaluation accompany each standard. The purposes are five-fold: (i) to inspire and promote, or stimulate the establishment of, specialized headache centres as centres of excellence; (ii) to define the role of such centres within optimally structured and organized national headache services; (iii) to set out criteria by which such centres may be recognized as exemplary in their fulfilment of this role; (iv) to provide the basis for, and to initiate and motivate, collaboration and networking between such centres both nationally and internationally; (v) ultimately to improve the delivery and quality of health care for headache.
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