Guidelines for the nonpharmacologic management of migraine in clinical practice. Canadian Headache Society

To provide physicians and allied health care professionals with guidelines for the nonpharmacologic management of migraine in clinical practice.

The full range and quality of nonpharmacologic therapies available for the management of migraine.

Improvement in the nonpharmacologic management of migraine. EVIDENCE AND VALUES: The creation of the guidelines followed a needs assessment by members of the Canadian Headache Society and included a statement of objectives; development of guidelines by multidisciplinary working groups using information from literature reviews and other resources; comparison of alternative clinical pathways and description of how published data were analysed; definition of the level of evidence for data in each case; evaluation and revision of the guidelines at a consensus conference held in Ottawa on Oct. 27-29, 1995; redrafting and insertion of tables showing key variables and data from various studies and tables of data with recommendations; and reassessment by all conference participants.