Headache in General Practice: Frequency, Management, and Results of Encounter

Table 5

Comparison of the frequency (number and percentage %) of results of encounter^* (“diagnosis”) in general practice patients with headache and without headache (SESAM 2 study).

Result of encounter	Headache		Without headache		(Fisher)
		%		%
Other upper respiratory infections	54	23.4	673	7.8	<0.001
Migraine/headache	46	19.9	9	0.1	<0.001
Other disease spinal column/back	35	15.2	713	8.2	0.001
Other symptoms/pathologic laboratory results^**	18	7.8	237	2.7	<0.001
Other disease circulatory system	8	3.5	110	1.3	0.012
Fever of unknown origin	4	1.7	20	0.2	0.003
Chronic sinusitis	3	1.3	2	0.0	<0.001

^*Further results of encounter of patients with headache omitted from the table because of lacking significance: Other bacterial diseases, herpes infection, other virus infections, other malign neoplasms of the skin, other neoplasms benign, in-situ or of unknown behaviour, iron deficiency anaemia, mental disorders by alcohol, schizophrenia and delusional disorders, affective disorders, neurotic and somatoform disorders, epilepsy, diseases of the nerves, nerve routes, plexus, other diseases of the nervous system, conjunctivitis, glaucoma, other diseases of the eyes, other diseases of the ears, essential hypertension, other hypertension, other cerebrovascular diseases, varicose of the lower extremities, acute pharyngitis and acute tonsillitis, acute laryngitis and tracheitis, flue, acute bronchitis and bronchiolitis, bronchial asthma, other diseases of the teeth and jaw, gastritis and duodenitis, other diseases of the esophagus, stomach or duodenum, other diseases of the bowels and peritoneum, other diseases of the liver, cholelithiasis and cholecystitis, chronic polyarthritis and other inflammatory polyarthropathies, other diseases of the joints, diseases of the smooth tissue, other diseases of the muscle and skeletal system and connective tissue, fractures of other parts of the extremities, luxation, spraining and distraction of specified and several body parts, other bruises specified and not otherwise specified on several body regions, other and not otherwise specified injuries with external causes, early complications of a trauma or surgical and medical treatment not otherwise specified.
^**not otherwise specified.