Objective: Physical complaints not attributable to verifiable, conventionally defined diseases,
ie, medically unexplained or functional somatic symptoms, are prevalent in all medical …

BACKGROUND: In order to clarify the classification of physical complaints not attributable to
verifiable, conventionally defined diseases, a new diagnosis of bodily distress syndrome …

Objective: To evaluate psychological characteristics that could be used for the classification
of somatic syndromes requesting medical care. Positive psychological classification criteria …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the current approach to classifying bodily symptoms in both
psychiatry and medicine and to suggest better alternatives. METHODS: Theoretical analysis …

Clusters of medically unexplained physical symptoms have been referred to in the literature
by many different labels, including somatization, symptom-based conditions, and functional …

Background Conceptualisation and classification of functional disorders appear highly
inconsistent in the health-care system, particularly in primary care. Numerous terms and …

The epidemiology of physical symptoms has been reviewed recently [1, 2]. Symptoms
account for more than half of all outpatient encounters or, in the United States alone, nearly …

OBJECTIVE: To propose a simpler, more empiric, and patient-centered category for
classifying physical symptoms that are “etiologically neutral,” that is, not reliant on the …

Research into illness behaviour is relevant to efforts to rethink the psychiatric nosology of
somatoform disorders. The discrete somatoform disorders might well be replaced by a …

Background. The aim of this study was to determine differences between patients attending
primary-care clinics with somatic symptoms for which no organic cause can be found, and …