The purpose of the PDTA in children and adolescents with headache is to reinforce collaboration between hospital and territorial neuropsychiatric services, through the creation of dedicated and appropriate paths; to encourage patients to take a proactive approach to the management of their headache in to the territorial healthcare service, already in the hospital, implementing shared diagnostic and therapeutic project. PDTA targets are patients with acute headache (primary or secondary), which require hospitalization at the Department of pediatric neuropsychiatry (NPI) ARNAS “Di Cristina” Palermo and patients which require NPI territorial healthcare services, through shared diagnostic and therapeutic pathways.
Established paths:
1) Inside the territorial services: path from level I territorial surgery to Level II specialized department of "Diagnosis and treatment of headaches in children and adolescents";
2) From territorial services to hospital: path from level II specialized department “Diagnosis and treatment of headaches in children and adolescents" to Department of pediatric neuropsychiatry (NPI) ARNAS “Di Cristina” Palermo;
3) From hospital to territorial services: path from Department of pediatric neuropsychiatry (NPI) ARNAS “Di Cristina” Palermo to “Level II specialized territorial department of Diagnosis and treatment of headaches in children and adolescents";
4) Inside the territorial services: path from "Level II specialized department: Diagnosis and treatment of headaches in children and adolescents " to “level I NPIA territorial surgery“