Is there a better term than "Medically unexplained symptoms"?

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-8

  Creed, Francis ^a   Guthrie, Elspeth ^a   Fink, Per ^b   Henningsen, Peter ^c   Rief, Winfried ^d   Sharpe, Michael ^e   White, Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOM;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 71049149505     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.09.004     Document Type: Editorial

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