General practitioners' responses to the initial presentation of medically unexplained symptoms: A quantitative analysis

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kappen, Teus ^a   van Dulmen, Sandra ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

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EID: 57649180793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-2-22     Document Type: Article

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