Factitious disorders and malingering: Challenges for clinical assessment and management

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9926, 2014, Pages 1422-1432

  Bass, Christopher ^a   Halligan, Peter ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECEPTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASES; DSM-5; DSM-IV-TR; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH CARE SEEKING BEHAVIOUR; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERVIEW; MALINGERING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NECK INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REWARD; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); WHIPLASH INJURY; ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACTITIOUS DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALINGERING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84898798848     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62186-8     Document Type: Review

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