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[Illness perception in general practice--in relation to patients with somatization disorder]
Jette Møller Nielsen1, Birgitte Dehlholm-Lambertsen, Margareta E Maunsbach
1Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Almen Medicin, Arhus Universitetshospital. jmn@alm.au.dk
Ugeskrift for Laeger
|December 10, 2002
Abstract:
In this paper different perceptions of disease and illness in general practice and possible implications of these perceptions for the GP's clinical work are described and discussed. The focus is on patients with medically unexplained symptoms and on the question whether the illness perception of the GP to some extent can explain the often inappropriate treatment of these patients.