Medically unexplained symptoms in an urban general medicine practice

Psychosomatics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 261-268

  Feder, Adriana ^a,b,c,d   Olfson, Mark ^a,b,c,d   Gameroff, Marc ^a,b,c,d   Fuentes, Milton ^a,b,c,d   Shea, Steven ^a,b,c,d   Lantigua, Rafael A ^a,b,c,d   Weissman, Myrna M ^a,b,c,d  

^a Department of Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0035000518     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.42.3.261     Document Type: Article

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