IBS: Hypnotherapy-a wasted resource?

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-13

  Whorwell, Peter J ^a  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; LAXATIVE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

BACKACHE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BLOATING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IRRITABLE COLON; LETHARGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84655167977     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2011.235     Document Type: Review

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