While most patients with headaches have no secondary headache disorder, the presence of red-flag symptoms should prompt additional investigation for an underlying cause. Guidelines suggest adopting the updated systematic red-flag screening tool, SNNOOP10. This approach ensures red flags are identified and used to guide subsequent investigations.
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