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Treatment preferences and the selection of acute migraine medications: results from a population-based survey
The Journal of Headache and Pain volume 5, pages 123–130 (2004)
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Seven oral triptans are available for treating acute migraine. We surveyed US migraine sufferers on the relative importance of treatment attributes for choosing among oral triptans. A multiattribute decision model was used to combine data on the relative importance of efficacy, consistency, and tolerability of acute treatment (determined by 206 triptan-experienced and 209 triptannaive subjects) with data on the performance of the triptans across the attributes (derived from a recent meta-analysis). Efficacy was considered significantly more important than tolerability and consistency: tolerability was significantly more important than consistency for triptan- naive but not triptan-experienced subjects. The multiattribute decision model found that almotriptan, eletriptan, and rizatriptan were significantly closer to the hypothetical ideal triptan than the reference product, sumatriptan 100 mg, for both triptan-naive and triptan-experienced migraine sufferers. Almotriptan, eletriptan, and rizatriptan were the preferred triptans selected on the basis of patients’ own priorities and product performance data.
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Lipton, R.B., Liberman, J., Cutrer, F.M. et al. Treatment preferences and the selection of acute migraine medications: results from a population-based survey. J Headache Pain 5, 123–130 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10194-004-0080-y
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10194-004-0080-y