• T J Steiner, H Göbel, R Jensen, C Lampl, K Paemeleire, M Linde, M Braschinsky, D Mitsikostas, R Gil-Gouveia, Z Katsarava, and European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache.
• Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Edvard Griegs Gate, Trondheim, Norway. t.steiner@imperial.ac.uk.
• J Headache Pain. 2019 Mar 4; 20 (1): 2424.

AbstractIn joint initiatives, the European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden have described a model of structured headache services (with their basis in primary care), defined service quality in this context, and developed practical methods for its evaluation.Here, in a continuation of the service quality evaluation programme, we set out ten suggested role- and performance-defining standards for specialized headache centres operating as an integral component of these services. Verifiable criteria for evaluation accompany each standard. The purposes are five-fold: (i) to inspire and promote, or stimulate the establishment of, specialized headache centres as centres of excellence; (ii) to define the role of such centres within optimally structured and organized national headache services; (iii) to set out criteria by which such centres may be recognized as exemplary in their fulfilment of this role; (iv) to provide the basis for, and to initiate and motivate, collaboration and networking between such centres both nationally and internationally; (v) ultimately to improve the delivery and quality of health care for headache.

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