Table 4 Characteristics of participating centres and patients
From: Headache service quality: evaluation of quality indicators in 14 specialist-care centres
| Â | Headache centre | Austria Linz | Belgium Ghent | Denmark Copenhagen | Estonia Tartu | Georgia Tbilisi | Germany Munich | Germany Unna | Italy Rome | Norway Trondheim | Portugal Lisbon | Russia Moscow AV | Russia Moscow U | Serbia Belgrade | Turkey Istanbul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Staff | Manager, n | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Administative staff, n | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |
Doctors, n | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
Other HCPs, n | 1 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | |
Patients | Patients, n | 58 | 50 | 51 | 50 | 50 | 53 | 50 | 51 | 30 | 52 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
Mean age (years) ± SD | 38.8 ± 16.6 | 40.2 ± 15,3 | 46.3 ± 15.6 | 39.8 ± 14.7 | 35.5 ± 13.2 | 40.6 ± 15.4 | 41.2 ± 14.9 | 42.8 ± 13.9 | 42.8 ± 14.4 | 36.7 ± 10.9 | 42.8 ± 12.9 | 34.9 ± 10.5 | 44.4 ± 13.4 | 38.8 ± 10.2 | |
Mean duration of headache, years ± SD | 13.4 ± 11.7 | 10.5 ± 12.1 | 12.6 ± 14.4 | 11.3 ± 11.1 | 6.8 ± 6.3 | 15.6 ± 14.1 | 12.7 ± 14.2 | 16.3 ± 12.6 | 17.6 ± 16.9 | 17.5 ± 13.2 | 13.3 ± 12.6 | 11.3 ± 9.3 | 11.6 ± 11.7 | 11.6 ± 7.7 | |
Records reviewed, n | 58 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 49 | 51 | 34 | 51 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | |
Diagnoses, n | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
 Migraine | 36 | 36 | 17 | 26 | 34 | 44 | 39 | 36 | 27 | 41 | 30 | 41 | 22 | 38 | |
 TTH | 3 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 5 | |
 Trigeminal neuralgia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
 Cluster headache | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
 MOH | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
 Other | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | |
 Missing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |