The Reasons Of Patients With Headache Chosing The Neurosurgery Outpatient Clinic

• Published in: Türk nöroloji dergisi Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 76 - 78
• Main Authors: Halil Murat Şen, Adem Bozkurt Aras, Mustafa Güven, Tarık Akman, Ayşegül Uludağ, Handan Işın Özışık Karaman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Galenos Yayinevi 01.09.2014
• Subjects: Brain Surgery; Headache; Neurology
• ISSN: 1301-062X; 1309-2545
• DOI: 10.4274/tnd.95530

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the preference causes of the patients who were admitted to the neurosurgery clinic with complaints of headache for admission in this clinic. METHODS: The study population has been selected from brain surgery department outpatient clinic. One hundred patients with complaints of headache were enrolled in this study. RESULTS: Questioned the reasons for choosing the neurosurgical and most preferred cause of including word for brain surgery of the brain named (n=54, 54%). Patients were questioned about the information of the neurology and demostrated that there was not any knowledge about neurology (n=66, 66%). CONCLUSION: Headache causes loss of the financial and workforce. Preferences in the wrong departments of the patients, as a result of misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment, increasing the number of hospital admissions. This shows that how important names and introduction of the departments