Patients With Multiple Unexplained Symptoms: Their Characteristics, Functional Health, and Health Care Utilization

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 69-72

  Smith, G Richard ^a   Monson, Roberta A ^a   Ray, Debby C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0022569437     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1986.00360130079012     Document Type: Article

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