Reliability of self-reported diagnoses in patients with neurologically unexplained symptoms

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 608-611

  Schrag, A ^a   Brown, R J ^a   Trimble, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVIEW; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; MENORRHAGIA; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CHEST PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICK ROLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SYNDROME;

EID: 1642564608     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.020552     Document Type: Article

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