Illness perception among patients with chest pain and palpitations before and after negative cardiac evaluation

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jonsbu, Egil ^a,b   Martinsen, Egil W ^c,d   Morken, Gunnar ^b,e   Moum, Torbjørn ^c   Dammen, Toril ^c,d  

^a Møre and Romsdal Hospital Trust   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Benign palpitations; Illness perception; Negative cardiac evaluation; Non cardiac chest pain; Psychosomatic medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866681512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-6-19     Document Type: Article

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