Gender bias in diagnosing fibromyalgia

Gender Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-27

  Katz, James D ^a   Mamyrova, Gulnara ^a   Guzhva, Olena ^a   Furmark, Lena ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

classification criteria; fibromyalgia; gender bias; random forests analysis

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCENTRATION LOSS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FAMILY HISTORY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GENDER BIAS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; THORAX PAIN; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; WEAKNESS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77049113820     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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