Assessing somatic symptoms in clinical practice.

JAMA Intern Med

Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts2Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Published: March 2014

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