Coral D Hanevold, Tammy M Brady
Screening and Management of Pediatric High Blood Pressure-Challenges to Implementing the Clinical Practice Guideline
Current hypertension reports
headache represents significant proportion disability globally general practice neurology outpatient settings emergency departments scant literature regarding impact headache healthcare services ireland aimed investigate headache burden across emergency department inpatient stays neurology outpatient department referrals irish university teaching hospital prospectively collected data regarding emergency department presentations inpatient neurology consultations neurology outpatient referrals patients headache 13th january 8th march 2020 data analyzed using descriptive statistics 180 emergency department attendances 50 inpatient consultations 76 outpatient referrals headache neurological examinations often incomplete neuroimaging commonly employed migraine frequent headache diagnosis discharge emergency department among inpatients neurology review diagnostic uncertainty identified33 patients left emergency department diagnosis unknownunspecified headache recorded 49 outpatient referrals 30 inpatient consult requests medication overuse headache coexisted migraine nine patients inpatient group prophylaxis trialed 56 patients migraine referred outpatients primary headache disorders large impact hospital services diagnostic uncertainty common neuroimaging relied upon appropriate care pathways education resource allocation prioritized