Medically unexplained physical symptoms.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Impact of disasters, including pandemics, on cardiometabolic outcomes across the life-course: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021
   Pooled it
2. Long COVID-19: A Concept Analysis.Infectious disease reports · 2025
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3. Some diseases are described in the literature as sometimes acute, sometimes chronic: How do general practitioners take medical decisions when faced with "fluctuating" conditions? A qualitative study.PloS one · 2025
   Article
4. Health complaints before and at one and five years after removal of dental amalgam restorations - data from a prospective cohort study in Norway.Acta odontologica Scandinavica · 2024
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5. Capsule Commentary on Monahan et al., Development and Feasibility of SymTrak, a Multi-Domain Tool for Monitoring Symptoms of Older Adults in Primary Care.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019
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6. A spiritual problem? Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' interpretations of medically unexplained symptoms.Journal of general internal medicine · 2013
   Article
7. Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Published Controlled Trials.Indian journal of psychological medicine
   Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  What do patients choose to tell their doctors? Qualitative analysis of potential barriers to reattributing medically unexplained symptoms.2009
• Comment on
  Primary care consultations about medically unexplained symptoms: how do patients indicate what they want?2009

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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