Des Moines, Iowa—In 1996, the
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) was scheduled to produce a set of clinical practice guidelines on available
treatment alternatives for headache in much the same way as the agency had previously done for its historic low-back pain
Clinical Guidelines released late in 1994. This headache project was based on the systematic evaluation of the literature
which existed at that time by a multidisciplinary panel of experts. Due to largely political circumstances, however, their
efforts never came to fruition: their work was never released as a guideline but was instead transformed with modifications
and budget cuts into a set of evidence reports on only migraine headache by the staff at the Center for Clinical Health Policy
Research at Duke University
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PHYSICAL TREATMENTS....
