In this article, we will address 10 questions about anxiety that are relevant to doctors who encounter this in their practice. This often occurs in the primary care setting, where individuals with anxiety frequently present with somatic complaints. A focused medical history, including questions about the use and withdrawal of psychoactive substances, can assist in the diagnostic process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany diseases in patients with multimorbidity show interactions, which can be divided in random, causal, complicated of synergistic interactions. Diagnostic reasoning in general should be expanded with a goal assessment when single disease directed guidelines are not applicable to limit diagnostic burden and troubling incidental findings without added diagnostic value. Disease directed diagnostic guidelines are not well adapted to symptoms and complaints of patients with multimorbidity, which urges to first explain these based on progression of the multimorbidity, and only if necessary, expand this to diagnostic work-up for new diseases.
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