Active clinical trials for "Headache"

Between January 2020 to August 2021, fifty percent of patients referred from Geisinger's primary care sites to Neurology for headaches did not trial appropriate first line therapy prior to referral, and there was limited access available at Geisinger's Neurology department. This project was initiated to improve patient experience, management of headache, and provider experience as it relates to headache management. Geisinger's Neurology department, pharmacy department, and Community Medicine Service Line (CMSL) sites have collaborated to develop a Headache CarePath (i.e., a best practice alert containing: an EPIC headache assessment, Express Lane for prescriptions, and Ask-a-doc button for Neurology consult) and piloted at 2 CMSL sites (Woodbine, Selinsgrove) to gain some initial feedback. The feedback has been incorporated into best practice alert (BPA) language and criteria. The project team now plans to implement this CarePath to half of CMSL sites first while the other half of CMSL sites will continue to practice the standard of care as of today. The team will evaluate the impact of this CarePath on patient outcomes [change in Headache Impact Test-6 (HIT-6) scores, change in the frequency of headaches, and change in pain intensity], emergency department (ED) visits, number of referrals to Neurology for headache, and prescribing of headache medications by comparing the measures in clinics that had the CarePath implemented to those that did not. Patient outcomes will be collected by Geisinger's Survey Core, which will reach out telephonically to patients to ask about the status of their headaches (HIT-6, frequency, intensity of headaches, M-TOQ-5). Other measures will be collected and analyzed using secondary data sources such as electronic health record (EHR) data. The initial implementation is planned for 6-9 months. The findings from this evaluation will help the CarePath team identify any remaining opportunities or guide the direction of its future enhancements of the CarePath tools. The results of this evaluation will be shared with the Geisinger leadership to demonstrate its value to the organization.

The study was planned to evaluate the effect of local cold application on headache severity in individuals who received intravenous nitroglycerin treatment, which mostly causes headache due to its vasoditator effect. It is thought that the results to be obtained may provide evidence for the development of patient care guidelines.

The purpose of the study is to determine physical and mental health issues of U.K. embryologists related to their occupational characteristics, and how workplace fatigue and burnout may affect their quality of life, cynicism, interactions with patients, attention to detail, and lead to human error, the cause of the most severe IVF incidents that often make headlines and result in costly litigation. It will also correlate how the current manual workflows contribute to these health issues, and what measures can be taken to improve both working conditions and embryologists' health, and, therefore, improve patient care.

This trial is collaboration between Mayo Clinic, Second Opinion Health (Simon Bloch, simon@somobilehealth.com 408-981-3814) and Allergan. Mayo Clinic investigators are conducting the clinical trial, Second Opinion Health is providing the software for use in the trial (Migraine Alert app for data collection, analysis and machine learning algorithms), and Allergan is providing funding. The investigators hypothesize that the use of a mobile phone app and Fitbit wearable to collect daily headache diary data, exposure/trigger data and physiologic data will predict the occurrence of migraine attacks with high accuracy. The objective of the trial is to assess the ability to use daily exposure/trigger and symptom data, as well as physiologic data (collected by Fitbit) to create individual predictive migraine models to accurately predict migraine attacks in individual patients via a mobile phone app.

Spinal anesthesia is commonly used for cesarean section.However, the procedure is still have some adverse events such as high spinal block, nerve injuries or postdural puncture headache (PDPH).This is a potential complication of neuraxial anesthesia in clinical practice. The investigators are curious regarding factors determining the incidence of postdural puncture headache in parturients undergoing cesarean section after epidural blood patch.

Understudied drugs will be administered to children per standard of care as prescribed by their treating caregiver and only biological sample collection during the time of drug administration will be involved. A total of approximately 7000 children aged <21 years who are receiving these drugs for standard of care will be enrolled and will be followed for up a maximum of 90 days. The goal of this study is to characterize the pharmacokinetics of understudied drugs for which specific dosing recommendations and safety data are lacking. The prescribing of drugs to children will not be part of this protocol. Taking advantage of procedures done as part of routine medical care (i.e. blood draws) this study will serve as a tool to better understand drug exposure in children receiving these drugs per standard of care. The data collected through this initiative will also provide valuable pharmacokinetic and dosing information of drugs in different pediatric age groups as well as special pediatric populations (i.e. obese).

The purpose of this study is to study MIGRA-ZEN RELIEF PLUS, an all-natural herbal dietary supplement product, with respect to alleviating and/or stopping migraine headache pain compared to a placebo when used prophylactically. This study will involve subjects suffering from chronic migraine headaches.

The purpose of this study is to collect data from patients who are diagnosed with epilepsy and are followed up in epilepsy clinics.

This study will be the first to provide data about the relationship between PFO and migraine in children. By establishing the actual prevalence, we will better understand if PFO plays a role in the occurence of pediatric migraine and, thus, provide the incentive to perform additional studies evaluating whether PFO closure is an effective treatment option for pediatric migraine. For children with migraine headaches, discovering novel and effective treatments would be life altering.

To assess CGRP levels in saliva through the evolution of migraine.