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How useful is the HIT-6™ for measuring headache-related disability?

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boxed-textKawata AK et al. (2005) Psychometric properties of the HIT-6 among patients in a headache-specialty practice. Headache 45: 638–643

In addition to its use in making diagnoses, assessment of headache impact is a useful guide to selecting treatment for and measuring clinical progress of this condition

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Lipton, R. How useful is the HIT-6™ for measuring headache-related disability?. Nat Rev Neurol 2, 70–71 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneuro0122

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