Project information
Routine clinical management of medically unexplained symptoms (Audit)
Key dates
Start date: November 2002
Completion date: March 2004
Publication date: July 2005
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Aims and objectives
To determine:
- what proportion of new patients attending Scottish neurology clinics have medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) and the variation between Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee
- the age, sex, health status, level of emotional distress and the illness beliefs of these patients with MUS compared with those who have medically explained symptoms
- the current clinical management of patients with MUS in the four centres
Project history
[Project no: 33]