(1) State University of New York at Albany, 12203 Albany, New York;(2) SUNYA Headache Project, Milne 129, 135 Western Avenue, 12203 Albany, New York;(3) Albany Medical College, 12200 Albany, New York
Abstract:
The degree of agreement in independent diagnosis of headache by a neurologist and a clinical psychologist was determined to be 86.4% in a series of 66 consecutive patients. Fifty-five percent of the disagreements were due to the patients' giving different information to the two assessors. This source of disagreement was associated with the patients' having had previous psychiatric treatment.This research was supported in part by Grant NS-15235 from the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke.