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Table 2 Characteristics of participating primary-care practices

From: Headache service quality evaluation: implementation of quality indicators in primary care in Europe

Practice characteristics

Germany

Turkey

Latvia

Portugal

Total

Practices

n

4

4

5

15

28

Staff

Doctors (GPs), n

9

4

5

93

111

Medical assistants, n

15

0

3

0

18

Nurses, n

0

4

2

68

74

Managers, n

6

4

5

12

27

Secretaries / administrators, n

12

4

5

49

70

Patients

n

122

125

156

90

493

Female (%)

78

75

72

81

77

Mean age (yr ± SD)

44.5 ± 15.7

39.7 ± 14.2

39.9 ± 16.5

45.8 ± 17.8

 

Mean duration of headache (yr ± SD)

17.8 ± 14.5

6.9 ± 7.5

2.3 ± 4.1

1.9 ± 4.6

 

Patients’ records

n

150

125

250

150

675

Diagnoses

Migraine unspecified (G43.9, G43.8), n

54

47

28

24

153

Episodic migraine without aura (G43.0), n

12

0

1

0

13

Episodic migraine with aura (G43.1), n

6

1

4

0

11

Chronic migraine (G43.3), n

2

7

0

0

9

Tension type headache (G44.2), n

3

47

23

20

93

Cluster headache (G44.0), n

4

1

3

0

8

Other primary or secondary headache disorders (summarized under G44.8), n

1

6

52

0

59

Medication-overuse headache (G44.4), n

0

0

0

0

0

Mononeuritis / Occipital neuralgia (G58.8)

9

0

0

0

9

Headache unspecified (R51), n

30

7

35

27

99

Others, n

1

9

10

19

39