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"INTERMED": a method to assess health service needs. I. Development and reliability

scientific article published in January 1999

A brief case-finding questionnaire for common mental disorders: the CMDQ.

scientific article

A brief diagnostic screening instrument for mental disturbances in general medical wards

scientific article published in July 2004

A medical record review for functional somatic symptoms in children

scientific article published on 05 December 2009

A new questionnaire to identify bodily distress in primary care: The 'BDS checklist'.

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

A new, empirically established hypochondriasis diagnosis

scientific article

A randomised controlled trial of brief training in assessment and treatment of somatisation: effects on GPs' attitudes

scientific article published on 16 May 2005

A randomized controlled trial of brief training in the assessment and treatment of somatization in primary care: effects on patient outcome.

scientific article published in July 2007

A step towards a new delimitation of functional somatic syndromes: A latent class analysis of symptoms in a population-based cohort study

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

A study of hospital admissions over time, using longitudinal latent structure analysis

scientific article published in September 1993

Acceptance and Commitment group Therapy for patients with multiple functional somatic syndromes: a three-armed trial comparing ACT in a brief and extended version with enhanced care

scientific article published on 26 June 2018

Acceptance and Commitment group Therapy for patients with multiple functional somatic syndromes: a three-armed trial comparing ACT in a brief and extended version with enhanced care - CORRIGENDUM

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Acceptance and commitment group therapy (ACT-G) for health anxiety: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Acceptance and commitment group therapy for health anxiety--results from a pilot study

scientific article published on 19 June 2013

Admission patterns of persistent somatization patients

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Admissions of persons aged 17-49 years to non-psychiatric departments

scientific article published in January 1989

Adverse life events in the general population - a validation of the cumulative lifetime adversity measure

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Are illness perceptions related to future healthcare expenditure in patients with somatoform disorders?

scientific article published on 3 March 2014

Are medically unexplained symptoms and functional disorders predictive for the illness course? A two-year follow-up on patients' health and health care utilisation

scientific article published on 22 April 2011

Are there gender differences in coping with neck pain following acute whiplash trauma? A 12-month follow-up study.

scientific article published in January 2012

Assessment and Treatment of Functional Disorders in General Practice: The Extended Reattribution and Management Model—An Advanced Educational Program for Nonpsychiatric Doctors

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Authors’ response to “Letter to the Editor: Left to their own devices: Medical learners’ use of mobile technologies”

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

Bodily distress syndrome: A new diagnosis for functional disorders in primary care?

scientific article

COMPRI--an instrument to detect patients with complex care needs: results from a European study

scientific article published in May 2001

Care Complexity in the General Hospital Results From a European Study

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Chronic primary pain: a pain-centered view of the world is too narrow

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Classification of somatization and functional somatic symptoms in primary care

scientific article

Cognitive–behavioural group treatment for a range of functional somatic syndromes: Randomised trial

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Cohort description: The Danish study of Functional Disorders

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Common mental disorders among patients in primary health care in Greenland

scientific article published in January 1998

Comparing group-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with enhanced usual care for adolescents with functional somatic syndromes: a study protocol for a randomised trial

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Complexity of care and mental illness in medical inpatients

scientific article published in November 2001

Current state of management and organisation of care

DSM-5 Personality Disorders and Traits in Patients With Severe Health Anxiety

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Detecting mental disorders in general hospitals by the SCL-8 scale

scientific article published in March 2004

Detection of illness worry in the general population: A specific item on illness rumination improves the Whiteley Index

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Development of an Internet-delivered educational video for acute whiplash injuries

article

Diagnosing depression.

scientific article published on October 2007

Diagnosis of somatisation: effect of an educational intervention in a cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article

Do illness perceptions predict health outcomes in primary care patients? A 2-year follow-up study

scientific article published in February 2007

Effects of maternal health anxiety on children's health complaints, emotional symptoms, and quality of life

scientific article published in December 2016

Enhanced care by generalists for functional somatic symptoms and disorders in primary care

scientific article

Enhanced care by generalists for functional somatic symptoms and disorders in primary care

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2009)

Feasibility Study of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Severe Health Anxiety

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Follow-up on mental illness in medical inpatients: health care use and self-rated health and physical fitness

scientific article published in July 2004

Functional Somatic Syndromes and Somatoform Disorders in Special Psychosomatic Units: Organizational Aspects and Evidence-Based Treatment

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Functional somatic disorders: discussion paper for a new common classification for research and clinical use

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Functional somatic symptoms and associated impairment in 5-7-year-old children: the Copenhagen Child Cohort 2000.

scientific article

Functional somatic symptoms and consultation patterns in 5- to 7-year-olds

scientific article published on 08 July 2013

Funktionelle lidelser og symptomer. Dilemma omkring klassifikation og begreber

scientific article published in 2006

Health anxiety: the silent, disabling epidemic

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Health services research on mental health in primary care.

scientific article

Imipramine for multiple functional somatic syndromes - Authors' reply

scientific article

Imipramine versus placebo for multiple functional somatic syndromes (STreSS-3): a double-blind, randomised study

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Impaired lipid- and glucose metabolism in persons with various functional somatic syndromes points towards a common genesis. The DanFunD study

scholarly article

Increased sensitivity to supra-threshold painful stimuli in patients with multiple functional somatic symptoms (MFS).

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Infant behaviors are predictive of functional somatic symptoms at ages 5-7 years: results from the Copenhagen Child Cohort CCC2000.

scientific article published on 29 September 2012

Irritable bowel, chronic widespread pain, chronic fatigue and related syndromes are prevalent and highly overlapping in the general population: DanFunD

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Is reduced heart rate variability associated with functional somatic disorders? A cross-sectional population-based study; DanFunD

scholarly article

Is there a better term than "medically unexplained symptoms"?

scientific article published in January 2010

Liason psychiatry. The Danish Society of Psychiatry

scientific article published in March 2002

Lipid metabolism and functional somatic disorders in the general population. The DanFunD study

scholarly article

Long-Term Outcome of Bodily Distress Syndrome in Primary Care: A Follow-Up Study on Health Care Costs, Work Disability, and Self-Rated Health

scientific article

Long-term consequences of severe health anxiety on sick leave in treated and untreated patients: Analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 21 April 2015

Long-term economic evaluation of cognitive-behavioural group treatment versus enhanced usual care for functional somatic syndromes

scientific article

Management of medically unexplained symptoms

scientific article published on January 2005

Medically unexplained symptom management

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Medically unexplained symptoms and the risk of loss of labor market participation--a prospective study in the Danish population

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Mental Disorders in Medical Inpatients and the Association to Severity of Illness, Self-Rated Physical Disability, and Health Perception

article

Mental disorders in primary care: prevalence and co-morbidity among disorders. results from the functional illness in primary care (FIP) study

scientific article published in August 2005

Mental disturbances and perceived complexity of nursing care in medical inpatients: results from a European study

scientific article published in November 2001

Mental illness and admission to general hospitals: a register investigation

scientific article published in December 1990

Mental illness and health care use: a study among new neurological patients

scientific article

Mental illness in new neurological patients

scientific article published on June 1, 2003

Mindfulness therapy for somatization disorder and functional somatic syndromes: Analysis of economic consequences alongside a randomized trial

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Mindfulness therapy for somatization disorder and functional somatic syndromes: randomized trial with one-year follow-up

scientific article

Mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 28 April 2011

Multiple chemical sensitivity in the general population: Socioeconomic status and lifestyle characteristics – And why screening for comorbid functional somatic syndromes is important

scholarly article

One single diagnosis, bodily distress syndrome, succeeded to capture 10 diagnostic categories of functional somatic syndromes and somatoform disorders

scientific article published in May 2010

Outcome measurement in functional somatic syndromes: SF-36 summary scores and some scales were not valid

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Parental-reported health anxiety symptoms in 5- to 7-year-old children: the Copenhagen Child Cohort CCC 2000.

scientific article

Patient characteristics and frequency of bodily distress syndrome in primary care: a cross-sectional study

scientific article

Patients in general practice in Denmark referred to physiotherapists: a description of patient characteristics based on general health status, diagnoses, and sociodemographic characteristics.

scientific article published in March 2001

Physical complaints and symptoms of somatizing patients

scientific article published on 01 February 1992

Physical disorders associated with mental illness. A register investigation.

scientific article published in November 1990

Physical symptom attributions: a defining characteristic of somatoform disorders?

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Physical, mental and social factors associated with frequent attendance in Danish general practice. A population-based cross-sectional study

scientific article published in August 2004

Possible side effects from HPV vaccination in Denmark

scientific article published in June 2016

Post-trauma ratings of pre-collision pain and psychological distress predict poor outcome following acute whiplash trauma: a 12-month follow-up study

scientific article published on 21 May 2008

Prevalence of functional somatic syndromes and bodily distress syndrome in the Danish population: the DanFunD study

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Psychiatric illness in patients with persistent somatisation

scientific article

Psychiatric morbidity in primary public health care: a Nordic multicentre investigation. Part I: method and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity

scientific article published in December 1995

Psychiatric morbidity in primary public health care: a multicentre investigation. Part II. Hidden morbidity and choice of treatment

scientific article published in January 1997

Psychological Distress Among Patients With Musculoskeletal Illness in General Practice

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Psychological distress as a predictor of frequent attendance in family practice: a cohort study

scientific article published on September 2001

RIFD - A brief clinical research interview for functional somatic disorders and health anxiety

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Recent developments in the understanding and management of functional somatic symptoms in primary care

scientific article published on March 2008

Redefining Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

scientific article by Fink (2015) in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Response to Letter to the Editor: A misleading CFS prevalence estimate in DanFunD

scientific article published on 08 February 2020

Risk factors for complex care needs in general medical inpatients: results from a European study

scientific article

Screening for common mental disorders: who will benefit? Results from a randomised clinical trial

scientific article published on 16 May 2005

Screening for somatization and hypochondriasis in primary care and neurological in-patients

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Sick Leave within 5 Years of Whiplash Trauma Predicts Recovery: A Prospective Cohort and Register-Based Study

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Sick leave and work disability in primary care patients with recent-onset multiple medically unexplained symptoms and persistent somatoform disorders: a 10-year follow-up of the FIP study.

scientific article published on 22 October 2014

Somatic Symptoms: Prevalence, Co-Occurrence and Associations with Self-Perceived Health and Limitations Due To Physical Health - A Danish Population-Based Study

scientific article

Somatic symptom profiles in the general population: a latent class analysis in a Danish population-based health survey

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Somatization - Beyond symptom count

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Somatization in patients newly admitted to a neurological department

scientific article published in March 1994

Somatization, heartsink patients, or functional somatic symptoms? Towards a clinical useful classification in primary health care.

scientific article

Somatoform disorders among first-time referrals to a neurology service

scientific article published in November 2005

Special status consultation for frequent attenders. Who are the candidates?

scientific article published on March 2002

Study protocol: a randomized controlled trial comparing the efficacy of therapist guided internet-delivered cognitive therapy (TG-iConquerFear) with augmented treatment as usual in reducing fear of cancer recurrence in Danish colorectal cancer survi

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Subjective dizziness

scientific article published in November 2013

Surgery and medical treatment in persistent somatizing patients

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

Symptoms and Syndromes of Bodily Distress: An Exploratory Study of 978 Internal Medical, Neurological, and Primary Care Patients

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Syndromes of bodily distress or functional somatic syndromes - Where are we heading. Lecture on the occasion of receiving the Alison Creed award 2017.

scientific article published on 25 April 2017

The BDS checklist as measure of illness severity: a cross-sectional cohort study in the Danish general population, primary care and specialised setting

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

The FIP study: a randomised, controlled trial of screening and recognition of psychiatric disorders

scientific article

The General Practitioner's Consultation Approaches to Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Qualitative Study

scientific article

The Soma Assessment Interview: new parent interview on functional somatic symptoms in children

scientific article published on 17 January 2009

The effect of a lay-led, group-based self-management program for patients with chronic pain: A randomized controlled trial of the Danish version of the Chronic Pain Self-Management Programme

scientific article

The outcome of health anxiety in primary care. A two-year follow-up study on health care costs and self-rated health

scientific article

The patients' illness perceptions and the use of primary health care

scientific article published in November 2005

The prevalence of somatoform disorders among internal medical inpatients

scientific article published in April 2004

The prognosis of bodily distress syndrome: a cohort study in primary care

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

The proposed diagnosis of somatic symptom disorders in DSM-V: two steps forward and one step backward?

scientific article published in January 2010

The relation between work-related psychosocial factors and the development of depression

scientific article published on 27 June 2008

The relationship between cognitive functions, somatization and behavioural coping in patients with multiple functional somatic symptoms

scientific article published on 9 November 2010

The role of illness perceptions in predicting outcome after acute whiplash trauma: a multicenter 12-month follow-up study

scientific article published on January 2015

The uncertain consultation and patient satisfaction: the impact of patients' illness perceptions and a randomized controlled trial on the training of physicians' communication skills

scientific article published in November 2005

The unifying diagnostic construct of bodily distress syndrome (BDS) was confirmed in the general population

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

The use of hospitalizations by persistent somatizing patients

scientific article published on 01 February 1992

The use of prescription medication in 239 patients with multiple functional somatic syndromes

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

Towards a clinically useful diagnosis for mild-to-moderate conditions of medically unexplained symptoms in general practice: a mixed methods study.

scientific article

Training General Practitioners in the Treatment of Functional Somatic Symptoms: Effects on Patient Health in a Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial (the Functional Illness in Primary Care Study)

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Use of complementary therapy among internal medical inpatients. Prevalence, costs and association with mental disorders and physical diseases

scientific article published on December 2003

Use of health services, mental illness, and self-rated disability and health in medical inpatients

scientific article published in July 2002

Using Illness Perceptions to Cluster Chronic Pain Patients: Results From a Trial on the Chronic Pain Self-Management Program

When physicians let themselves be deceived

scientific article published in September 2013

Which is more important for outcome: the physician's or the patient's understanding of a health problem? A 2-year follow-up study in primary care

scientific article published in October 2009

[A new, empirically established hypochondriasis diagnosis--secondary publication]

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

[Antidepressive pharmacological treatment of somatoform conditions and functional syndromes]

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

[Computer-based diagnosis of functional and mental disorders in general practice]

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

[Consultation-liaison psychiatry--the clinical couterpart of psychosomatics]

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

[Management of medically unexplained symptoms]

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

[Models for continuing education in general practice focusing on functional disorders]

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

[Multiple chemical sensitivity, a well-defined illness?]

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

[New unifying diagnosis of functional diseases]

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

[Pre-collision pain and psychological distress predict poor outcome following acute whiplash trauma--secondary publication]

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

[Somatic symptoms and complaints of somatizing patients]

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

[Towards a unified treatment approach for functional somatic syndromes and somatization]

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

[When the patients is ill and the examination results are normal]

scientific article published on 01 June 2010