A review of current European treatment guidelines for migraine

Table 1 Comparison between European and national migraine guidelines: differences and similarities

Country and year of publication	Language	Type of headache	Children	Pregnancy and lactation	Non-drug intervention	IHS criteria
EHF (2007) [22]	English	Migraine, TTH, CH, MOH	Yes	No	Yes	2004
EFNS (2006) [19]	English	Migraine, CH, TACs	Yes	Yes	No	2004
UK (2007) [13]	English	All primary headaches	Yes	Yes	Yes	2004
Scotland (2008) [10]	English	All primary headaches	No	Yes	Yes	2004
Croatia (2005) [16]	English	All primary headaches	No	Yes	Yes	2004
Croatia (2008) [17]	Croatian	NU	NU–	NU–	NU–
Switzerland (2008) [11]	French	Migraine, TTH, CH, MOH	Yes	Yes	Yes	2004
Finland (2008) [12]	Finnish	Migraine	Yes	Yes	NU-	2004
Spain (2007) [14]	Spanish	Migraine	Yes	No	Yes	2004
Romania (2006) [15]	Romanian	All primary headaches	No	No	Yes	2004
The Netherlands (1997) [9]	Dutch	NU	NU	NU	NU–	1988
The Netherlands (2007) [18]	Dutch	NU	NU	NU	NU	2004
France (2004) [6]	English	Migraine	Yes	No	Yes	1988
Italy (2001) [7]	English	Migraine, CH	No	No	No	1988
Denmark (1988) [8]	English	Migraine, TTH, CH	Yes	Yes	Yes	1988

TTH tension-type headache, CH cluster headache, MOH medication-overuse headache, TACs trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, NU not understood (local language)

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