Lifting the burden of headache in China: managing migraine in a SMART way

The Journal of Headache and Pain

Letter to the Editor

Shengyuan Yu¹  Timothy J Steiner² 

[1] Department of Neurology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Fuxing Road 28, Haidian District, 100853, Beijing, China;Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway;Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK;

关键词: China;    Migraine;    Headache schools;    Smart;    Continuing medical education;    Lifting the burden;    Global campaign against headache;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s10194-017-0790-6

 received in 2017-06-29, accepted in 2017-07-26,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

With support fromLifting The Burden, a UK-registered charitable organization, a nationwide survey of headache disorders in the Chinese adult population was conducted in 2008–2009. This project, which was within the Global Campaign against Headache, showed that headache disorders have a major adverse impact on public health in China. Subsequently, as essential support for implementing headache services around the country, an enactment of stage 3 (intervention) of the Global Campaign against Headache − the continuing medical education (CME) programHeadache Schools −was established. ‘SMART’ (Screen, Migraine, Aura, Red flag and Treatment), a systematic and operational disease management model, was introduced with the aims of enhancing neurologists’ knowledge of migraine, standardizing their diagnostic and treatment approaches, and improving their practices and outcomes. To date, 615 neurologists have been trained and 135 headache clinics have been established. In future, as we promote SMART in CME, we can use the database of our computerized clinical decision support systems to evaluate the impact on treatment outcomes.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s). 2017