Predictors of conventional and alternative health care seeking for irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 841-851

  Koloski, N A ^a   Talley, N J ^a,b   Huskic, S S ^a   Boyce, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEPEAN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0037444986     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01498.x     Document Type: Article

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