How common are symptoms? Evidence from a New Zealand national telephone survey

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Petrie, Keith J ^a   Faasse, Kate ^a   Crichton, Fiona ^a   Grey, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGITATION; ANXIETY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEART PALPITATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCREASED APPETITE; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NEW ZEALAND; NIGHTMARE; PARESTHESIA; POPULATION; POST HOC ANALYSIS; RANDOM DIGIT DIALING; RASH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SYMPTOM; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; THORAX PAIN; TREMOR; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84903165176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005374     Document Type: Article

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