From: Aids to management of headache disorders in primary care (2nd edition)
Document types | Group members | Essential criteria |
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Lay, such as information leaflets for people with headache; Technical, expected to be read only by professionals and used in management: management guidelines are an example; Hybrid, to be read and understood by people with headache but used either in clinical practice or in research: examples are lay-administered diagnostic questionnaires, diagnostic or follow-up diaries, the HALT Indices (measures of impact) and the HURT questionnaire (an outcome measure). | JM Bertolote, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; C Houchin, Oxford Outcomes Ltd., Oxford, UK; T Kandoura, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; M Peters, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK TJ Steiner, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK | The protocols must: • Conform to accepted translation guidelines; • Ensure rigour of the translation process and quality of the translated products; • Be suitable and have utility across different countries and cultures; • Include target-user evaluation; • Be pragmatic, recognising that unduly onerous protocols would be rejected and therefore unhelpful. |