Early treatment of migraine attacks with triptans: a strategy to enhance outcomes and patient satisfaction?

D D'Amico, F Moschiano, G Bussone - Expert Review of …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Treating migraine attacks early with triptans may be more effective than late triptan
administration… In this study, satisfaction with current acute therapy was assessed first. The …

Strategies to improve migraine treatment results

C Lucas - Drugs, 2006 - Springer
… medication while pain is mild will help increase treatment success … endpoints and treatment
goals relevant to patient satisfaction, … [20] Early intervention with triptans is supported by our …

Treatment strategies in the acute therapy of migraine: stratified care and early intervention

D D'Amico, F Moschiano, S Usai, G Bussone - Neurological Sciences, 2006 - Springer
… grade, clinical outcomes were significantly better than with … that treating migraines with triptans
when pain is mild (early … the headache, and patient satisfaction with the current treatment. …

Clinical benefits of early triptan therapy for migraine

J Pascual - Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
early intervention, pain was less likely to intensify, fewer attacks required redosing, more
attacks remained pain-… , innovative strategies such as early intervention in the migraine attack

Early treatment in migraine: how strong is the current evidence?

A Gendolla - Cephalalgia, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
… changing patient behaviour can improve the results of migraine … , triptan trials have required
patients to treat migraine attackstreatment guidelines to drive optimal treatment strategies. …

Acute Migraine Treatment With Rizatriptan in Real World Settings–Focusing on Treatment Strategy, Effectiveness, and Behavior

H Hu, T Kurth, R Cady, N Santanello… - Headache: The …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… on comparative triptan studies, followed by presenting data on outcomesPatient satisfaction
and migraine-specific quality-oflife scores were also significantly better for attacks treated

Patient satisfaction with eletriptan in the acute treatment of migraine in primary care

RB Nett, PJ Tiseo, M Almas… - International journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
triptans (5-HT 1B/1D -receptor agonists) in treating acute migraine attacks has been established
from the results … to eletriptan can be a useful treatment strategy, a finding consistent with …

[HTML][HTML] Meeting patient expectations in migraine treatment: what are the key endpoints?

F Antonaci, G Sances, E Guaschino, I De Cillis… - … of Headache and Pain, 2008 - Springer
… assessed patient satisfaction related to the treatment of migraine … of 53 triptan studies
involving over 24,000 migraine patients (… intensity, it can be used to increase awareness of, and …

Determinants of patient satisfaction with migraine therapy

GM Davies, N Santanello, R Lipton - Cephalalgia, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
… to evaluate which treatment outcomes influence patient satisfaction with treatment. Analyses
… In each study, diary data were collected on each migraine attack every 30 min for the first 2 …

Acute migraine treatment outcome measures: a clinician's view

FD Sheftell, AW Fox - Cephalalgia, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
… gestalt measures of patient satisfaction and treatment preference. … works better if administered
at the onset of pain than when the … triptan, then we shall also be asking them to treat their …