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Why Reassurance Fails in Patients with Unexplained Symptoms—An Experimental Investigation of Remembered Probabilities

BACKGROUND: Providing reassurance is one of physicians' most frequently used verbal interventions. However, medical reassurance can fail or even have negative effects. This is frequently the case in patients with medically unexplained symptoms. It is hypothesized that these patients are more li...

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Autores principales: Rief, Winfried, Heitmüller, Andrea Maren, Reisberg, Katja, Rüddel, Heinz
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1523375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16866576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030269