Barriers to improving treatment

Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Somatisation and Bodily Distress: Developing Better Clinical Services

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 124-131

  Henningsen, Peter ^a   Fazekas, Christian ^b   Sharpe, Michael ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84871615393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511977862.006     Document Type: Chapter

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