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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 74:238-241 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.2.238
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Lay versus expert interviewers for the diagnosis of migraine in a large sample of elderly people

Table 3

Agreement between lay interviewers and an expert on migrainous disorders fulfilling all IHS criteria except one (code 1.7 of the IHS classification)

Expert
Lay interviewers No migraine Migraine Total
Values are numbers of subjects.
 Sensitivity 73.2%, specificity 64.2%, positive predictive value 83.3%, negative predictive value 49.4%.
 IHS, International Headache Society.
No migraine 43 44 87
Migraine 24 120 144
Total 67 164 231

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