"Unexplained Symptoms"


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The problem of "unexplained symptoms."

Note Text: 1369 Unexplained symtpoms

Fourteen common physical symptoms are responsible for almost half of all primary care visits, but only 10-15% of them are found to be caused by an organic illness, the rest being medically unexplained. In rheumatology clinics, about 28% of patients' symptoms are somewhat or not at all explainable, and these patients are....

Fishbain, David A., "Psychiatric Pain-Associated Co-morbidities", Chapter 19 of McMahon et al. 2013, 2013, 280

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