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Coding of medically unexplained symptoms and somatoform disorders by general practitioners – an exploratory focus group study

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-018-0812-8

Published Online: 2018-07-27

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Pohontsch, N. J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0966-4087
Zimmermann, T.

Jonas, C.

Lehmann, M.

Löwe, B.

Scherer, M.
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

German Research Foundation (SCHE 1689/5-1)

German Research Foundation (LO 766/13-1)

German Research Foundation (AL 1459/5-1)
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Article History

Received: 8 March 2017

Accepted: 28 June 2018

First Online: 27 July 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Hamburg Medical Association on 07.04.2015, Germany (approval number PV4763). All participants gave their written informed consent to participate in the study.

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: NJP, TZ and MS are members of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians. NJP, TZ and MS declare that they have no further competing interests. BL, CJ and ML declare that they have no competing interests.

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