Symptom management for medically unexplained symptoms in primary care: a qualitative study
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Medically unexplained symptoms in primary care.
Fourteen common physical symptoms are responsible for almost half of all primary care visits. Only about 10% to 15% of these symptoms are found to be caused by an organic illness over a 1-year period. Patients with medically unexplained symptoms are frequently frustrating to primary care physicians and utilize medical visits and costs disproportionately. This paper will review the relationship ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of General Practice
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0960-1643,1478-5242
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp19x701849