Symptom prevalence and severity in a general practice population
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Symptom prevalence and severity in a general practice population.
SUMMARY The prevalence of symptoms in the community is sometimes used as an index of untreated morbidity. However, such an index can be very misleading unless it makes allowance for differences in symptom severity between declared and undeclared patients. Recent attenders at one health centre were compared with controls who had not seen their GPs for at least three months. Comparisons of sympto...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.33.3.191