Journal article
Somatic symptom count scores do not identify patients with symptoms unexplained by disease: a prospective cohort study of neurology outpatients.
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OBJECTIVE: Somatic symptoms unexplained by disease are common in all medical settings. The process of identifying such patients requires a clinical assessment often supported by clinical tests. Such assessments are time-consuming and expensive. Consequently the observation that such patients tend to report a greater number of symptom has led to the use of self-rated somatic symptom counts as a simpler and cheaper diagnostic aid and proxy measure for epidemiological surveys. However, despite t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry Journal website
- Volume:
- 86
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 295-301
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-330X
- ISSN:
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0022-3050
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:471177
- Source identifiers:
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471177
- Deposit date:
- 2014-07-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Carson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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