Identification of patients with moderate medically unexplained physical symptoms in primary care with a five years follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are common in primary care, with a spectrum from mild to moderate and chronic MUPS. The burden of chronic MUPS is high, and early identification of moderate MUPS patients is important to prevent chronicity. The PRESUME screening method to identify moderate MUPS patients in primary care was developed, but insight in prognostic accuracy is needed. Therefore, our objective is to determine the prognostic accuracy for identification of moderate MUPS patients using the screening method with 5 year follow-up.

Methods

The PRESUME screening method consists of three subsequent steps based on consultation frequency, exclusion of medical/psychiatric diagnosis and identification of MUPS. In a random 10% sample of pat

SUBMITTER: van Westrienen PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530058 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature