Symptom complaints and health care seeking behavior in subjects with bowel dysfunction

Gastroenterology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1984, Pages 314-318

  Sandler, Robert S ^a   Drossman, Douglas A ^a   Nathan, Henry P ^a   McKee, Daphne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LARGE INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; THERAPY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OFFICE VISITS; PAIN; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021269282     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(84)90706-6     Document Type: Article

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