Somatic symptom count scores do not identify patients with symptoms unexplained by disease: a prospective cohort study of neurology outpatients

Alan J Carson; Jon Stone; Christian Holm Hansen; Rod Duncan; Jonathon Cavanagh; Keith Matthews; G Murray; Michael Sharpe

doi:10.1136/jnnp-2014-308234

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Somatic symptom count scores do not identify patients with symptoms unexplained by disease: a prospective cohort study of neurology outpatients

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Alan J Carson Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jon Stone Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Christian Holm Hansen Department of Medical Statistics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Rod Duncan Department of Neurology, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jonathon Cavanagh Department of IHW, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Keith Matthews Division of Neuroscience, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
G Murray Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael Sharpe Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Alan Carson, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Tipperlin Road, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, UK; a.carson{at}ed.ac.uk

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Carson AJ, Stone J, Hansen CH, et al

Somatic symptom count scores do not identify patients with symptoms unexplained by disease: a prospective cohort study of neurology outpatients

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2015;86:295-301.

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Received April 4, 2014
Accepted May 21, 2014
First published June 16, 2014.

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April 13, 2016

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