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This is a new headache when it began within the last 3 months.
This is a chronic or recurring headache. If the patient is pregnant, they should identify it as identical to their pre-pregnancy headaches.
Select Yes if the patient is pregnant beyond 20 weeks or gave birth within the last 12 weeks.
Select Yes for a recent upper respiratory infection accompanied by acute vision changes and/or facial swelling.
This includes transplant recipients, patients with HIV and a CD4 count below 500, or patients receiving active anti-cancer therapy.
Please confirm elevated blood pressure on two different readings, 15 minutes apart.
Worse with sitting up and resolves with lying down.
Select Yes when cervical myofascial pain syndrome is the best match for the patient's presentation.
Select Yes when temporomandibular joint disorder or bruxism is the best match for the patient's presentation.
Select Yes when idiopathic intracranial hypertension is the best match for the patient's presentation.
Select Yes when spontaneous intracranial hypotension is the best match for the patient's presentation.
Select Yes when the headache is precipitated by exercise.
Select Yes when the presentation best matches migraine.
Select Yes when the patient experiences an aura with the migraine.
Select Yes when the presentation best matches a tension-type headache.
Select Yes when the presentation best matches a trigeminal autonomic cephalgia.
Cluster pattern: pain lasts 15-180 minutes, is timed, and the patient feels restless during the attack.
Hemicrania pattern: headache lasts 2-30 minutes per attack, or is continuous and waxes and wanes, with ipsilateral conjunctival injection and multiple attacks per day.
Select Yes when the headache is brought on by sexual activity.
Select Yes only when the patient fulfills all listed criteria for primary headache associated with sexual activity.
Select Yes when occipital neuralgia is the best match for the patient's presentation.