Does simple "reassurance" work in patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1208-1209

  Escobar, Javier I ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSULTATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; NOTE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

HUMANS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 33748374018     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030313     Document Type: Short Survey

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