TY - JOUR
TI - Headache service quality: The role of specialized headache centres within structured headache services, and suggested standards and criteria as centres of excellence
AU - Steiner, T.J.
AU - Göbel, H.
AU - Jensen, R.
AU - Lampl, C.
AU - Paemeleire, K.
AU - Linde, M.
AU - Braschinsky, M.
AU - Mitsikostas, D.
AU - Gil-Gouveia, R.
AU - Katsarava, Z.
AU - European Headache Federation
AU - Lifting The Burden
AU - Global Campaign against Headache
JO - The Journal of Headache and Pain
PY - 2019
VL - 20
TODO - 1
SP - null
PB - BioMed Central Ltd.
SN - 1129-2369, 1129-2377
TODO - 10.1186/s10194-019-0970-7
TODO - Article;  biomechanics;  competence;  European;  headache;  health care quality;  health center;  health service;  human;  primary medical care;  priority journal;  staff;  headache;  headache and facial pain;  health care delivery;  health care quality;  pain clinic;  primary health care;  standards;  trends, Delivery of Health Care;  Headache;  Headache Disorders;  Humans;  Pain Clinics;  Primary Health Care;  Quality of Health Care
TODO - 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. © 2019 The Author(s).
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