Medically unexplained symptoms: assessment and management
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Medically Unexplained Symptoms (Assessment and Management)
Many of the affected patients do not receive a correct diagnosis and undergo numerous fruitless investigations and attempts at treatment. The narrow focus on the somatic aspects of a complex problem may reinforce their concerns about having a physical disease, make them less satisfied with the healthcare system, contribute to the development of chronic disablement and cause healthcare costs to ...
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Many of the affected patients do not receive a correct diagnosis and undergo numerous fruitless investigations and attempts at treatment. The narrow focus on the somatic aspects of a complex problem may reinforce their concerns about having a physical disease, make them less satisfied with the healthcare system, contribute to the development of chronic disablement and cause healthcare costs to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0947