Table 3.

Percent Differences Between Patients and Clinicians by Symptom Domains Overall and by Geographic Location

Patients vs Clinicians Difference by Geographic Location, (95% CI)
Symptom DomainAll Patients vs Clinicians Difference (95% CI)aWashington, DCNew Orleans, LASeattle, WANew York, NYSt. Louis, MO
Headache-related symptoms2.6 (–4.1, 9.2)3.8 (–4.2, 11.8)–0.3 (–7.3, 6.8)5.4 (–4.1, 14.9)3.0 (–5.2, 11.1)1.7 (–7.4, 10.7)
Eye-related symptoms10.5 (7.4, 13.6)15.0 (8.0, 22.0)6.9 (2.0, 11.9)15.5 (6.2, 24.8)9.9 (3.4, 16.4)2.4 (–2.3, 7.2)
Systemic symptoms6.5 (–5.9, 19.0)11.1 (–3.4, 25.6)–2.0 (–15.3, 11.3)6.1 (–9.5, 21.6)14.3 (–1.0, 29.5)1.7 (–14.3, 17.7)
Sinonasal symptoms5.4 (–8.9, 19.8)5.4 (–10.1, 20.8)10.4 (–4.5, 25.4)9.0 (–7.0, 25.0)–4.1 (–20.8, 12.6)7.2 (–10.0, 24.3)
Facial symptoms–17.3 (–34.1, –0.5)–11.3 (–29.6, 7.0)–22.4 (–39.8, –4.9)–8.1 (–27.9, 11.7)–22.4 (–40.1, –4.7)–22.5 (–3.7, –41.3)
Ear symptoms17.2 (3.4, 31.0)17.9 (1.9, 33.8)14.6 (–1.2, 30.3)23.5 (5.5, 41.6)18.4 (1.9, 35.0)10.7 (–8.1, 29.5)
  • aValues are presented as difference followed by the 95% confidence interval (CI). Positive percent differences indicate that clinicians are more likely to select a symptom domain to describe migraine, while negative percent differences indicate that patients are more likely to select a symptom domain to describe migraine. Confidence intervals that do not contain 0 are statistically significant (P<0.05).