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November 10, 2020; 95 (19) Special Article

Quality improvement in neurology

Headache Quality Measurement Set

Matthew S. Robbins, M. Cristina Victorio, Mark Bailey, Calli Cook, Ivan Garza, J. Stephen Huff, Duren Ready, M. Schuster Nathaniel, David Seidenwurm, Elizabeth Seng, Christina Szperka, Erin Lee, Raissa Villanueva
First published September 23, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000010634
Matthew S. Robbins
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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M. Cristina Victorio
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Mark Bailey
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Calli Cook
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Ivan Garza
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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J. Stephen Huff
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Duren Ready
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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M. Schuster Nathaniel
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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David Seidenwurm
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Elizabeth Seng
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Christina Szperka
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Erin Lee
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Raissa Villanueva
From the Department of Neurology (M.S.R.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; NeuroDevelopmental Science Center (M.C.V.), Akron Children's Hospital, OH; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Indian Springs, AL; Emory University (C.C.), School of Nursing, Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Mayo Clinic (I.V.), Rochester, MN; University of Virginia Health System (J.S.H.), Charlottesville, VA; Baylor Scott & White (D.R.), Temple, TX; Department of Anesthesiology (N.M.S.), University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine, La Jolla, CA; Sutter Imaging (D.S.), Sacramento, CA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University (E.S.), Bronx, NY; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (C.S.), Philadelphia, PA; American Academy of Neurology (E.R.), Minneapolis, MN; and University of Rochester (R.V.), NY.
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Quality improvement in neurology
Headache Quality Measurement Set
Matthew S. Robbins, M. Cristina Victorio, Mark Bailey, Calli Cook, Ivan Garza, J. Stephen Huff, Duren Ready, M. Schuster Nathaniel, David Seidenwurm, Elizabeth Seng, Christina Szperka, Erin Lee, Raissa Villanueva
Neurology Nov 2020, 95 (19) 866-873; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010634

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Headache is the most frequent reason for a person to seek care from a neurologist and is the most common subspecialty practice focus identified by neurologists.1 Although headache is most commonly encountered in primary care,2,3 it is also the fourth leading cause of emergency department visits,4 with 1.2 million encounters annually in US emergency departments for migraine alone.5

Primary headache disorders are extraordinarily common and for many people contribute to significant disability. Although most of the population experiences a primary headache disorder in their lifetime with tension-type headache as the most common disorder,6 migraine alone affects 12% of the population in any given year and is accompanied by substantial comorbidities.7 The most severe form of migraine, chronic migraine, features a 1% population prevalence, disproportionate disability, and high individual and societal cost.8 Recent estimates demonstrate a total annual societal cost on average for a person with chronic migraine exceeding $8,000 and for episodic migraine approximating $3,000.9

Migraine has its most severe disability during young and middle age, when people are most economically productive in society, adding to the disproportionate burden. According to the 2016 Global Burden of Disease study by the World Health Organization, migraine ranks second among all causes of years lost to disability (YLD)10 and is the top cause of YLD worldwide among persons aged 15–49 years.11 Although less common, cluster headache, the most common trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia, features a lifetime prevalence of 1 in 1,000 persons12 and is particularly intractable and burdensome.13 Cluster headache features extraordinarily severe attacks of pain accompanied by autonomic symptoms. Cluster headache is incredibly disabling; recent studies demonstrate people with cluster headache are twice as likely to miss work14 and 3 times as likely to have depression.15

Headache disorders are chronic neurologic diseases characterized by episodic attacks. Therefore, treatment typically consists of a combination of acute strategies meant to reduce attack symptoms and preventive strategies meant to reduce attack frequency. Recent and emerging advances in the treatment of migraine, cluster headache, and other headache disorders have great potential to influence clinical practice across a variety of age groups. These advances include acute and preventive pharmacological therapies, procedures, and nonpharmacological treatments such as neuromodulation devices and behavioral therapies.

In 2015, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) published the first set of quality measures for headache, with the goal of providing a standard to measure and improve care for patients with headache disorders.16 Because of such advances in our understanding of these disorders, and in their diagnosis and treatment, we provide an update for quality measurement in headache.

Opportunities for improvement

Treatment advances

Management of headache disorders has rapidly evolved in the recent years, featuring advances in pharmacological, neuromodulation, and behavioral therapies. Since the previous headache measure set publication in 2015, the Food and Drug Administration has approved 8 new migraine-specific preventive and acute medications and cleared 4 neuromodulation devices, including 2 treatments for cluster headache (external vagus nerve stimulation, galcanezumab) and one treatment with a label extending to adolescents (single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation). Divergent pharmacological treatment patterns across adult and pediatric populations17,18 reinforce the need to conceptualize preventive treatment more broadly, as a concept not just restricted to medications.

Opioid use

The prevalent and excessive use of opioids is a public health concern and adversely affects people with headache disorders in a variety of care settings.5,19 Excessive opioid use is a risk factor for migraine progression to chronic migraine.20 The AAN and other organizations already feature quality measures directly addressing appropriate opioid use and misuse (table 1), and these measures address opioids in the context of acute therapy recommendations and migraine progression risk factor assessment.

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Table 1

Additional relevant measures

Adherence to treatments

Therapy adherence is a critical issue in the care for patients with headache disorders. Underutilization of prescribed acute migraine-specific therapies may be a risk factor for migraine to progress to chronic migraine.21 Acute therapies often require a complex decision-making procedure, taking into account the trade-offs between early treatment to improve efficacy and limiting the use to reduce the risk of medication overuse.22,23 Unfortunately, adherence to preventive therapies is particularly challenging24,25 for chronic disorders when episodic symptoms are not active every day. Furthermore, many preventive therapies are intolerable for some patients but often have a latency period requiring consistent use before efficacy manifests to permit patients to make an informed decision about the trade-off between side effects and efficacy. More recent treatments such as monoclonal antibodies, self-administered monthly or quarterly, and onabotulinumtoxinA, administered in the office every 12 weeks, make treatment adherence a less practical factor to assess. Therefore, this measure concept was not developed further. A quality measure on therapy adherence should be considered in the future, not only for medications but also for neuromodulation devices and behavioral therapies as well.

Tension-type headache and neuroimaging

Although tension-type headache is the most prevalent headache disorder in the population and chronic tension-type headache can be disabling, the evidence for preventive treatment is not robust. Therefore, quality measures for the treatment of tension-type headache should be revisited after the emergence of a higher quality of level of evidence. Finally, to exclude secondary causes of headache, clinicians may turn to neuroimaging. An existing AAN quality measure addresses imaging overuse,26 the American College of Radiology has developed appropriateness criteria,27 and the American Headache Society (AHS) has both a Choosing Wisely statement28 and a more specific guideline.29 The quality of more specific neuroimaging hospital protocols for thunderclap headache presentations specifically, including communication between the managing clinician and the radiologist, may be a topic for future consideration.

Methods

The AAN and the AHS formed a work group of key stakeholders from care team members that care for patients with headache. Details of the full measure development process are available online.30 The construction of the work group began with a nomination process from the AAN, which led to the formation of the 12-member work group.

All work group members were required to disclose potential conflicts of interest and completed applications summarizing experiences and interests. The facilitators and chair independently selected members from the pool of qualified specialists and expert nominees. The selection was based on the nominee's experience in performance measures, quality improvement, and clinical activities.

The measure development process included the following: (1) evidence-based literature search, (2) establishing a multidisciplinary work group adhering to the AAN conflict of interest policy, (3) drafting candidate measures and technical specifications, (4) convening the work group virtually to review candidate measures, (5) refining and discussion of the candidate measures, (6) soliciting public comments on approved measures during a 21-day period, (7) refining the final measures according to the input received during the public comment period and corresponding technical specifications, and (8) obtaining approvals from the work group, AAN Quality Measures Subcommittee, AAN Quality Committee, American Academy of Neurology Institute Board of Directors, and AHS Board of Directors.

The work group sought to develop evidence-based measures to support the delivery of high-quality care and to improve patient outcomes. The work group, guided by a medical librarian, conducted a comprehensive literature search, identifying 6,676 abstracts relevant to the potential measures. Data available from AAN.com (Appendix e-2, aan.com/siteassets/home-page/policy-and-guidelines/quality/quality-measures/headache/appendix-2-headache-lit-search.pdf). AAN staff conducted a preliminary review of the literature results to deduplicate articles and eliminate articles that were not pertinent to the topic. The remaining citations were given to the expert work group to review and identify relevant guidelines, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and quality improvement articles. This yielded 22 guidelines, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses to represent a core feature of the evidence base for the measures developed. After the development of draft measure concepts during the virtual meeting, a public comment period resulted in comments from 17 individuals. This feedback drove concept refinement, which resulted in 6 measures that were approved (table 2). The work group approved measures most applicable to outpatient settings.

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2019 AAN headache measurement set

The AAN plans to provide resources to review these measures every 6 months. Thus, this measure set aims to provide a working framework for measurement, rather than a long-term mandate.

Results

Our work group developed 6 approved measures. The first 4 topics receiving priority included migraine frequency documentation, counseling, and management using acute and preventive therapies. The final measures focus on the acute and preventive treatment of cluster headache.

Documentation of migraine frequency

Proper assessment of migraine attack frequency is a core metric foundational for diagnosis, assessing migraine impact, determining appropriate treatment plans, and assessing the impact of treatment. A diagnosis of migraine without aura and migraine with aura requires a cumulative number of attacks in the International Classification of Headache Disorders.31 Migraine attack frequency is the major feature that enables the diagnosis of chronic migraine, defined in someone with migraine by having the presence of headache on more than 15 days per month for at least 3 months, of which at least 8 headache days per month fulfill migraine criteria or respond to a migraine-specific medication. 2.5% of people with episodic migraine (<15 days per month of headache) progress to chronic migraine annually, rendering it an important public health problem.20

The decision to initiate preventive therapy for migraine is grounded in an assessment of migraine attack frequency.7 Documenting the reduction of migraine frequency is a desired outcome for preventive treatment and requires asking the patient and documenting frequency in a standard format in the medical record.32 A retrospective recall is sufficient for documenting headache and migraine attack frequency. However, migraine attack frequency may be captured more accurately using headache diaries including electronic-based recording tools such as apps on a mobile phone because synchronous monitoring reduces biases associated with retrospective recall.33

Modifiable lifestyle and chronification factors counseling for migraine

Lifestyle factors influence migraine severity and attack frequency. These include high and variable stress, poor quality sleep, skipping meals, alcohol, and irregular caffeine intake34,35 from other dietary sources or medication sources, or both. Assessment and counseling to manage lifestyle factors associated with attack frequency and migraine severity is a fundamental part of education for patients with migraine and requires an individualized approach. This treatment aspect may be particularly important for the pediatric population, especially in the absence of strong evidence for medical preventive therapy.

Lifestyle factors are also potentially modifiable risk factors for migraine to progress to chronic migraine.34 It is particularly important to assess and counsel patients regarding acute medication overuse. Defined as regular use of acute medications more than 10 or 15 days per month depending on medication class,31 acute medication overuse is highly disabling,10 prevalent, and prominently associated with a risk of migraine progressing to chronic migraine, particularly with the regular use of barbiturates and opioids.20

Treatment prescribed for acute migraine attack

Recommending treatment for acute migraine attacks is a critical therapeutic component for all patients with migraine in any care setting. Migraine attacks are acutely debilitating because of symptoms through the attack phases: premonitory symptoms, aura, headache, and postdrome. Undertreatment of acute attacks is common and associated with migraine progression to chronic migraine,21 rendering it an important modifiable risk factor. Optimal acute treatment strategies are required for all patients, and there are templates available that can help to communicate these treatment recommendations consistently.36,37 Acute treatment approaches for migraine usually feature over-the-counter or prescription medications but may also include neuromodulation devices.

Acute medication overuse is a complicating factor in patients with frequent migraine attacks38 and may also be a risk factor for migraine progression to chronic migraine.20 Therefore, an allowable exclusion for not offering a prescription may be the presence of acute medication overuse to avoid potential escalation of this more nuanced clinical situation where a complex set of decisions need to be made, making the “Modifiable Lifestyle and Chronification Factors Counseling for Migraine” a more useful measure to apply.

Migraine preventive therapy management

Preventive therapy is a cornerstone of migraine management. The goal of preventive therapy is to reduce the frequency and severity of individual attacks, improve responsiveness to acute therapies, reduce the ictal and interictal burden and disability, and potentially to induce a remission of migraine as a disease, including those with chronic migraine. Preventive treatments should be offered when people with migraine have ≥6 monthly headache days, ≥4 monthly headache days with some impairment, or ≥3 monthly headache days with severe impairment or bed rest. Preventive therapy can be considered with ≥4 monthly migraine days with normal functioning, ≥3 monthly migraine days with some impairment, or ≥2 monthly migraine days with severe impairment.7 These criteria were recently reiterated by an AHS position article.32 In the general population, the American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention study suggests approximately 38% of people with migraine need preventive therapy, but only 13% currently use preventive therapy,7 showing a huge unmet need. Reduction of migraine attack frequency is likely a treatment that can prevent the onset of chronic migraine in people with episodic migraine.

Acute and preventive treatment prescribed for cluster headache

Patients with cluster headache either have episodic cluster headache where periods of attack freedom exceed 3 months annually, or chronic cluster headache, where remission periods last less than 3 months annually. Nonetheless, all patients with cluster headache can feature attack periods of weeks to month in duration that are extremely disabling. Therefore, the default approach for patients with cluster headache is to require a treatment strategy to manage individual attacks and reduce attack frequency and severity. The quality measure for cluster headache includes both of these treatment approaches in a paired measure.

Proposed concepts and retired measures

The process to update the 2015 Headache Quality Measurement Set involved reviewing the existing measures and proposing new measure concepts. Work group members proposed 5 measure concepts that were not approved because they lacked the evidence or were not feasible to implement in clinical practice at this time (table 3). These concepts will be revisited over time to see if they are ready for development.

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Proposed concepts considered but not developed

The work group retired a number of measures from the 2015 headache quality measurement set16 (table 4). Many of these measures remain of critical importance and have since been incorporated into other endorsed measure sets by the AAN and other organizations already in use (table 3). Others have been reorganized into more consolidated or paired measures in this update. We felt the disproportionate emphasis on acute medication overuse in the previous headache measures could inadvertently lead to perverse incentives, whereby neurologists and other clinicians who serve challenging patients with higher disease severity would be penalized, potentially giving providers another reason to avoid treating this high-priority patient group. Acute medication overuse is a controversial topic,39 and its persistence may be related to the underutilization of pharmacological and nonpharmacological preventive therapies, which we address. Many preventive therapies of different classes have evidence for effectiveness when acute medication overuse is present,40,41 although limited studies exist with primary analyses.42 We also did not include measures for cervicogenic headache in the current quality measures because their optimal approach for study, assessment, and treatment does not have a clear consensus.43

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Retired headache quality measures

Finally, we removed uses of the term “migraines” in our measures to use the proper, defined term of either “migraine,” “migraine attacks,” or “chronic migraine.” The term “migraines” is felt to be inaccurate31 and potentially stigmatizing to patients.44 Migraine is a singular neurologic disorder defined by a plurality of attacks,31 features disabling symptoms including but not limited to headache, and has a substantial ictal and interictal burden.

Conclusions

These quality measures provide assessment tools for the appropriate care of patients with headache disorders, including migraine and cluster headache. As treatment advances in the field of headache medicine continue to develop rapidly, these measures will require revision in future years. We aimed to create measures that provided feasibility for the practicing clinician while also being patient-centered in our approach. Aside from including an assessment of migraine attack frequency, we did not include other specific outcome measures, such as standardized disability assessments, which do not currently have a uniform, feasible approach for standardized implementation in clinical practice. However, our measures provide the flexibility to measure contemporary headache clinical practice, including the use of all evidence-based treatments such as novel pharmaceuticals, neuromodulation, and behavioral therapies. Ongoing and future studies including the selection of specific acute and preventive therapies in both adult and pediatric populations and the appropriate management strategy for acute medication overuse in people with migraine will influence future revision of these measures.

Study funding

No targeted funding reported.

Disclosure

M. S. Robbins serves on the editorial board of Headache and the board of directors of the American Headache Society (nonremunerative positions). He receives an editorial stipend from Springer (Current Pain and Headache Reports) and book royalties from Wiley. M.C. Victorio reports no disclosures relevant to the manuscript. M. Bailey reports no disclosures relevant to the manuscript. C. Cook reports no disclosures relevant to the manuscript. I. Garza receives royalty payments from UpToDate, Inc. for his work as author. J. S. Huff reports no conflicts of interest. D. Ready serves on scientific advisory boards for Alder and Allergan and speakers' bureau for Avanir. N. Schuster receives research support from the Migraine Research Foundation and speaker's bureau for Eli Lily & Co. D. Seidenwurm receives funds for travel from NQF, ACR, and CMS (Acumen). He receives medical legal expert witness fees for witness and defense. D. Seidenwurm is a medical group shareholder for RASMG and SMG. E. Seng receives research support from the NINDS (K23 NS096107 PI: Seng) and has consulted for GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, and Click Therapeutics. C. Szperka receives research support from Pfizer, NINDS (K23 NS102521), and FDA. Her institution has received compensation for her consulting work from Allergan. She is the PI of a grant from Amgen which funds a headache fellow and does not receive compensation from that grant. E. Lee reports no disclosures relevant to the manuscript. R. Villanueva reports no disclosures relevant to the manuscript. Go to Neurology.org/N for full disclosures.

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Footnotes

  • Go to Neurology.org/N for full disclosures. Funding information and disclosures deemed relevant by the authors, if any, are provided at the end of the article.

  • The following measures were approved by the work group. Providers are encouraged to identify the 1 or 2 measures that would be most meaningful for your patient populations and implement these measures to drive performance improvement in practice.

  • This measurement set was jointly updated by the American Headache Society and the American Academy of Neurology Institute. This article was peer reviewed by Neurology, and simultaneously published in Headache and Neurology.

  • Received April 3, 2020.
  • Accepted in final form July 14, 2020.
  • © 2020 American Academy of Neurology

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