Structured headache services as the solution to the ill-health burden of headache. 3. Modelling effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of implementation in Europe: findings and conclusions

• Published in: Journal of headache and pain Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 90 - 7
• Main Authors: Tinelli, Michela, Leonardi, Matilde, Paemeleire, Koen, Raggi, Alberto, Mitsikostas, Dimos, de la Torre, Elena Ruiz, Steiner, Timothy J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Milan Springer Milan 01.12.2021; Springer Nature B.V; BMC
• Subjects: Cost analysis; Cost estimates; Headache; Headaches; Health care; Health economics; Internal Medicine; Medication-overuse-headache (MOH); Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Migraine; Neurology; Pain Medicine; Public health; Quality control; Quality improvement; Research Article; Sensitivity analysis; Structured headache services; Tension-type-headache (TTH); Europe; Structured headache services; Headache; Quality improvement; Health economics; Tension-type-headache (TTH); Medication-overuse-headache (MOH); Migraine; Global campaign against headache; Cost-effectiveness; Healthy-life-years (HLYs)

Background There have been several calls for estimations of costs and consequences of headache interventions to inform European public-health policies. In a previous paper, in the absence of universally accepted methodology, we developed headache-type-specific analytical models to be applied to impl...