Headache Diagnosis using a Questionnaire from Johns Hopkins Hospital Doctors

Will instruct attendees how to critically evaluate headache patients. It will explain the use of a questionnaire available over the Internet, which can predict the presence of abnormal medical testing with 95% accuracy, and predict who will not have medical abnormalities with 85%-100% accuracy. Another questionnaire gives diagnoses with a 96% correlation with those of Johns Hiopkins Hospital doctors and results can be copied and pasted into the chart, thereby eliminating typing and dictation.

Why you should Attend

Johns Hopkins doctors report that 35%-70%% of patients “diagnosed” with migraine headache actually have muscle tension headaches with vascular components Patients who do not get well are often called as “fraudulent” when in fact they are misdiagnosed 40%-80% of the time. The average amount of time a physician spends getting a history is 11 minutes, during which time, the doctor speaks 7 of the 11 minutes.

It will describe a test used by Johns Hoipkins Hospital to detect patients with a valid complaint of pain, This questionnaire was developed by Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors, and has always has been admitted as evidence in 9 states, in over 30 cases. It takes only 5 minutes of secretarial time to administer over the Internet. Once the valid complaint of pain has been established, additional medical intervention was indicated. Headache patients were given an Internet based questionnaire which produces diagnoses with a 96% correlation with diagnoses of Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors.

Then, based on these diagnoses, the results recommend testing using the Johns Hopkins Hospital protocols. These results can be copied and pasted into the chart, eliminating typing and dictation for the physician, and saving a lot of time. When the recommendations were followed, 80% of the patients previously diagnosed with migraine really needed facet blocks, peripheral nerve blocks and nerve decompression to get well.

Areas Covered in the Session

Questionnaire from Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors takes only 5 minutes of staff time to administer over the Internet. It identifies who has a valid complaint of pain, and who will need additional testing and procedures for insurance pre-authorization, and can predict intra-operative finding with 100% accuracy.

Who Will Benefit

Office Managers of Doctors Offices
Doctors

Speaker Profile

Nelson Hendler The instructor is a former assistant professor of neurosurgery and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was past president of the American Academy of Pain Management, and the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association of America. He has published 5 books, 33 medical text-book chapters, and 75 articles. He has been asked to testify on medical issues before the US Senate on three occasions. He has testified in 300 depositions and 75 trials in 10 states, for both the plaintiff and defense, and lectured at over 60 medical schools and hospitals in 10 countries, including KEMPORAN, the consortium of health care carriers in Japan, Al Kaharj Military Hospital in Saudi Arabia, at the invitation of the Minister of Health, and was the first honorary member of the Israeli Pain Society. He has also been on the board of directors of two multi-billion dollar public companies -a bank and an insurance company.