Tin Nguyen

Period 5
Annotated Bibliography

Headache: When to Worry, What to Do. Harvard Health, Harvard Health

Publications, June
2009, http://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/headache-when-to-worry-what-to-do.
(2) The purpose is to help understand the causes and finding the treatments to relieve
headache pain. (3) The content contains material such as when to worry about a headache,
headache categories, and explaining specific types of headaches. (4) A possible audience is
anyone who wants to know when to worry and what to do about headaches. (5) This
provides a concise overview of the topic. (6) Many other articles by Harvard covering this
subject. (7) No bias.

Smitherman, Todd A., et al. "The prevalence, impact, and treatment of migraine and

severe headaches in the United States: a review of statistics from national surveillance
studies." Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain 53.3 (2013): 427-436.
(2) The purpose is to provide estimates of headache burden and treatment patterns by
examining migraines and headaches. (3) The content contains data taken from various
sources. (4) A possible audience is those who want to study the data themselves and use it
as a reference. (5) This was published three years ago so the data is fairly current. (6) This
contains various data plots, ranging from pie graphs to bar graphs to line plots. (7) No bias.

Subcutaneous Sumatriptan International Study Group. "Treatment of migraine

attacks with sumatriptan." N Engl J Med 325.5 (1991): 316-321.

(2) The purpose is to determine the efficacy of sumatriptan in the treatment of migraines. (3)
The content contains an experiment with the results. (4) A possible audience would be those
who would want to attempt this treatment or use this data to see if they can come up with the
same results. (5) This may not be so relevant because it was published back in 1991. (6) It
contains commentary about other treatments for migraines. (7) Bias that indicates that
clinicians should strongly consider using subcutaneous sumatriptan for migraine attacks.

Kassak, Kassem, et al. "Spinal manipulation vs. amitriptyline for the treatment of

chronic tension-type headaches: a randomized clinical trial." J Manipulative Physiol Ther 3

(1995): 148-154.

(2) The purpose was to compare the effects of spinal manipulation and pharmaceutical
treatments for chronic tension headaches. (3) The content contains the study done to do the
comparison. (4) A possible audience could be those looking to consider doing these
treatments for their headaches. (5) This has a data that can be reviewed and tries again if
needed. (6) No special features. (7) No bias.

Straube, Andreas, et al. "Headache in schoolchildren: prevalence and risk factors."

Dtsch Arztebl Int 110.48 (2013): 811-818.

(2) The purpose is discuss headaches in schoolchildren with the prevalence and risk factors.
(3) The content contains some causes to the headaches as well as references. (4) A possible
audience could be a parent who wishes to find out about what is causing their children pain.
(5) Many children in school suffer from headaches so this article is relevant to most anyone.
(6) No special features. (7) No bias.