Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS)
Investigation of Mental Health in Patients with Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms
... The results revealed significant differences in obsessive-compulsive and somatization between the two groups of patients with and without medically unexplained physical symptoms. Differences ...
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Identifying patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms in electronic medical records in primary care: a validation study
... Early identification in EMRs proved to be feasible and effective for other risk populations, like patients with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular risks and frail elderly [14-16] as well as for preventive health care [17]. ...
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Use of complementary and alternative medicine in patients with health complaints attributed to former dental amalgam fillings
... Background: The dental filling material amalgam is generally well tolerated. However, a small proportion of dental patients experience health complaints which they attribute to amalgam. The symptom pattern is often ...
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... Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are those without relevant organic pathology and are commonplace in primary care and specialty medical care ...more physical and ...
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... Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are those without relevant organic pathology and are commonplace in primary care and specialty medical care ...more physical and ...
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I Know You Can't See It But It Hurts : A Research Study into the Experiences of Young People, Their Parents and Healthcare Professionals, Who Live and Work with Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms
... ‘I can think [of] cases where I thought it has been unexplained and then it has become clear it hasn’t been...basically a child’s parents wanted a diagnosis of reflux, I advised them that this was not the case, ...
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Evolution of the human fear-circuitry and acute sociogenic pseudoneurological symptoms: The Neolithic balanced-polymorphism hypothesis
... Acute medically unexplained physical symptoms in young healthy individuals after exposure to war zones are a rapidly growing concern and includes a sub-group with sociogenic etiology (Clauw et ...
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General practitioners' responses to the initial presentation of medically unexplained symptoms: a quantitative analysis
... The presentation by the patient was defined as verbal expressions of physical symptoms during the first uninter- rupted part of the conversation. Presentations were divided into three major classes, ...
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Mental health care use in medically unexplained and explained physical symptoms: findings from a general population study
... with physical symptoms – irrespective of whether the symptoms were unexplained such as in MUS, explained by a chronic somatic condition, or a combination of the two – and also after adjustment ...
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The interpretation of low mood and worry by high users of secondary care with medically unexplained symptoms
... The interviews followed a topic guide (Additional file 1). Patient interviews began with a discussion of the most recent referral and medical condition and then moved on to other experiences of illness and of being a ...
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At the borders of medical reasoning: aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms
... the medically unexplained in a similar ...The physical-medical specialist has an eye for the inexplicably painful lumbar ...an unexplained mental ...
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Psychosoma in crisis: an autoethnographic study of medically unexplained symptoms and their diverse contexts
... before me and the texture of the newspaper between my thumb and fingers is rough. My attention tunes in to the content of the newspaper and I read through an article as long as it holds my interest – in the Middle East ...
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At the border of medical reasoning - aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms
... the medically unexplained in a similar ...the unexplained irritable bowel. The physical- medical specialist has an eye for the inexplicably painful lumbar ...an unexplained mental ...
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What do guidelines and systematic reviews tell us about the management of medically unexplained symptoms in primary care?
... example unexplained physical symptoms, functional symptoms, or somatoform symptoms, we have chosen to use MUS in this article because this is the most frequently used ...
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Psychosomatic therapy for patients frequently attending primary care with medically unexplained symptoms, the CORPUS trial: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) have been defined as symptoms of which the origins remain unclear after adequate history taking, physical exam- ination and careful consideration of ...
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The Relaxation Exercise and Social Support Trial (RESST): a community based randomized controlled trial to alleviate medically unexplained vaginal discharge symptoms
... increase physical activity can help to alleviate psychological symptoms ...reduce medically un- explained symptoms, but with very limited success ...
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Understanding the explanatory model of the patient on their medically unexplained symptoms and its implication on treatment development research: a Sri Lanka Study
... The somatic interventions used by doctors has been widely attributed to patients belief that symptoms are caused by physical disease [41,42]. However in our study majority did not offer an explicit ...
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Prevalence of medically unexplained symptoms in adults who are high users of health care services: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
... Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) is a general term which refers to physical symptoms that cannot be fully explained by observable pathology or known/recognised pathological ...Such ...
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General practitioners' views on reattribution for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a questionnaire and qualitative study
... about physical causes of symp- toms that were not amenable to change, compounded by learned behaviours and secondary ...and unexplained symptoms, and the nebulous definitions of ...
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New models of care: a liaison psychiatry service for medically unexplained symptoms and frequent attenders in primary care
... Following referral to the PCWS, a review of her case notes revealed that Patient A’s urodynamic studies had been normal. The team liaised with the surgeon, who agreed to a trial of bladder retraining. The team worked to ...
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