Prevalence, management and burden of episodic and chronic headaches—a cross-sectional multicentre study in eight Austrian headache centres

Table 3 Differences in the utilization of health care services between patients with episodic headache and chronic headache

Health care services	All patients		EH		CH		Chi²	P
Frequency data missing 23	n	%	n	%	n	%
General practitioner	146	33.1	72	30.0	66	40.5	4.7	0.029
Neurologist	286	64.9	165	69.3	109	66.5	0.37	n.s.
Physical therapist	99	22.5	40	17.1	54	32.7	0.27	n.s.
Emergency department	63	14.3	34	14.7	27	16.6	13.1	0.0003

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