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Prevalence and detection of medically unexplained symptoms among out-patients in a Primary Health Care setting in South-west Nigeria

Annals of Health Research, 2020
Background: Medically unexplained symptoms are frequently encountered by physicians at the primary care level. The complexity lies in the ill-defined nature of the multiple physical symptoms and the similarity to several organic disorders.
OO Ogunsemi, TO Afe, BS Osalusi, OO Adeleye, AO Ale   +4 more
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Stellate ganglion block successfully relieved medically unexplained chronic pain: a case report

Journal of International Medical Research, 2022
Medically unexplained symptoms refers to a clinical syndrome characterized by somatic symptoms that cannot be reasonably explained by any organic disease. Chronic pain can be a type of medically unexplained symptom.
Yiting Huang, Jian Xu, Qingyan Liu, Zhimin Zeng, Yuenong Zhang   +4 more
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Why reassurance fails in patients with unexplained symptoms--an experimental investigation of remembered probabilities. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2006
BACKGROUND: Providing reassurance is one of physicians' most frequently used verbal interventions. However, medical reassurance can fail or even have negative effects. This is frequently the case in patients with medically unexplained symptoms.
Winfried Rief, Andrea Maren Heitmüller, Katja Reisberg, Heinz Rüddel   +3 more
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Characteristics of undiagnosed diseases network applicants: implications for referring providers

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The majority of undiagnosed diseases manifest with objective findings that warrant further investigation. The Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) receives applications from patients whose symptoms and signs have been intractable to diagnosis ...
Nicole M. Walley, Loren D. M. Pena, Stephen R. Hooper, Heidi Cope, Yong-Hui Jiang, Allyn McConkie-Rosell, Camilla Sanders, Kelly Schoch, Rebecca C. Spillmann, Kimberly Strong, Alexa T. McCray, Paul Mazur, Cecilia Esteves, Kimberly LeBlanc, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Anastasia L. Wise, Vandana Shashi   +16 more
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Demographic and health-related factors associated with reduced work functioning in people with moderate medically unexplained physical symptoms: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are a leading cause of reduced work functioning. It is not known which factors are associated with reduced work functioning in people with moderate MUPS. Insight in these factors can contribute to
Mark L. van Tilburg, Paula Elisabeth van Westrienen, Martijn F. Pisters   +2 more
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Psychosocioeconomic study of medically unexplained physical symptoms

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2012
Background: There is a paucity of studies done on medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) in Kerala, India. The objective of this study was to examine the sociodemographic and other clinical variables associated with this condition.
Maju Mathew Koola, Praveenlal Kuttichira
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The resource utilisation of medically unexplained physical symptoms

SAGE Open Medicine, 2016
Objectives: As patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms may present frequently to hospital settings and receive potentially unnecessary investigations and treatments, we aimed to assess the frequency and type of medically unexplained ...
Kimberley Lee, Malcolm H Johnson, Julie Harris, Frederick Sundram   +3 more
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Psychiatric Aspects of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2013
The patients with medically unexplained symptoms for their physical symp-toms are generally prevalent in the primary care consultation. Such patient, frequently consume primary and secondary healthcare services and it is a situa-tion that disappointed ...
Gokhan Kandemir, Ismail Ak
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Diagnostic Strategies for Medically Unexplained Symptoms [PDF]

Zhongguo quanke yixue
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) is a common problem in primary medical care. The etiology of MUS is unclear, which brings continuous pain to patients and affects the doctor-patient relationship.
LIU Ruihong, CHEN Kai, LI Zhuo, SUN Zuoya, CHEN Zhiyuan
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Medically unexplained neurological symptoms

JRSM Short Reports, 2010
We report a case of medically unexplained quadriplegia following lumbar decompression and discuss the management of this type of problem.
Marcus, Hani, Aldam, Poppy, Lennox, Graham, Laing, Rodney   +3 more
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