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Headache and emergency medicine: sharing a language for a common project

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Acknowledgments

This scientific initiative dedicated to “Emergency Headache” has been promoted and is a product of the educational activity developed by the Specialist Education Working Group (SEWG) of the WHO Global Campaign to Reduce the Burden of Headache, Lifting the Burden (http://www.who.int/mental_health/neurology/headache/en/). This initiative has been made possible by the collaboration between European Federation of Internal Medicine (http://www.efim.org) and the European Headache Federation (http://www.ehf-org.org).

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Giuseppe Licata

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Stefan Lindgren

  3. Department of Neurology, University of Essen, Essen, Germany

    Hans-Christoph Diener

  4. Department of Medical Sciences, 2nd School of Medicine, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189, Rome, Italy

    Paolo Martelletti

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Licata, G., Lindgren, S., Diener, HC. et al. Headache and emergency medicine: sharing a language for a common project. Intern Emerg Med 3 (Suppl 1), 1–2 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-008-0187-2

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