Reattribution reconsidered: narrative review and reflections on an educational intervention for medically unexplained symptoms in primary care settings

L Gask, C Dowrick, P Salmon, S Peters… - Journal of psychosomatic …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) refer to bodily symptoms without a
physical health explanation. In the context of MUS, reattribution is a process of attributing …

Validity of current somatoform disorder diagnoses: perspectives for classification in DSM-V and ICD-11

B Löwe, C Mundt, W Herzog, R Brunner… - …, 2007 - karger.com
Background: The impending revisions of DSM-IV and ICD-10 provide an excellent
opportunity to improve the diagnostic accuracy of the current somatoform disorder …

Depression, anxiety, and somatoform disorders: vague or distinct categories in primary care? Results from a large cross-sectional study

G Hanel, P Henningsen, W Herzog, N Sauer… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Depression, anxiety, and somatization are the most frequently observed mental
disorders in primary health care. Our main objective was to draw on the often neglected …

Social isolation predicts frequent attendance in primary care

T Cruwys, JRH Wakefield, F Sani… - Annals of Behavioral …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Frequent attenders in primary care have complex physical and mental
healthcare needs as well as low satisfaction with their health care. Interventions targeting …

From stabilization knowledge to possibility knowledge in organizational learning

Y Engeström - Management learning, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Our categorizations of knowledge tend to be based on formal characteristics of knowing.
Polanyi's (1967) distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge is a case in point, as is also …

Why do they keep coming back? Psychosocial etiology of persistence of frequent attendance in primary care: a prospective cohort study

FT Smits, HJ Brouwer, AH Zwinderman, J Mohrs… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Patients who visit their General Practitioner (GP) very frequently over extended
periods of time often have multimorbidity and are costly in primary and specialist healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] Demographic characteristics and quality of life of patients with unexplained complaints: a descriptive study in general practice

H Koch, MA van Bokhoven, G Riet… - Quality of Life …, 2007 - Springer
Abstract Objective About 13% of GPs' consultations involve unexplained complaints (UCs).
These complaints can progress to chronic conditions like medically unexplained symptoms …

[HTML][HTML] Managing the consultation with patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a grounded theory study of supervisors and registrars in general practice

L Stone - BMC family practice, 2014 - Springer
Background Patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) commonly present in
general practice. They often experience significant disability and have difficulty accessing …

[HTML][HTML] A European research agenda for somatic symptom disorders, bodily distress disorders, and functional disorders: results of an estimate-talk-estimate Delphi …

CM Van der Feltz-Cornelis, I Elfeddali… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Background: Somatic Symptom Disorders (SSD), Bodily Distress Disorders (BDD) and
functional disorders (FD) are associated with high medical and societal costs and pose a …

Coping with loss of control in the practice of medicine.

J Shapiro, J Astin, SL Shapiro, D Robitshek… - Families, Systems, & …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Although the quest for active control and mastery can be seen as a central thread that ties
together important aspects of human experience, we are frequently confronted with the …