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Table 19 The three types of document produced for the Global Campaign, the expert consensus group and their five essential criteria

From: Aids to management of headache disorders in primary care (2nd edition)

Document types

Group members

Essential criteria

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.