Somatoform Disorders: How to Reduce Overutilization of Health Care Services
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- case report
- Published by SLACK, Inc. in Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
- Vol. 26 (9) , 31-34
- https://doi.org/10.3928/0279-3695-19880901-12
Abstract
Instead of dismissing client complaints as hypochondriasis, primary care providers must look to the individual's psychosocial needs, which may be masked by imaginary problems.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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