M102 Nhg Guideline on Medically Unexplained Symptoms (mus)
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The treatment of patients with medically unexplained symptoms in primary care: a review of the literature.
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are among the most common and frustrating in primary care. Our goal was to review published evidence to guide busy general practitioners working with a culturally diverse, challenging patient population coping with MUS. A search of PubMed and PsycINFO from 1985 to the present was conducted using MUS and related terms.The literature was then organised into su...
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