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. 2002 Dec 21;325(7378):1449-50.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1449.

What should we say to patients with symptoms unexplained by disease? The "number needed to offend"

Jon Stone  1 , Wojtek Wojcik, Daniel Durrance, Alan Carson, Steff Lewis, Lesley MacKenzie, Charles P Warlow, Michael Sharpe
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What should we say to patients with symptoms unexplained by disease? The "number needed to offend"

Jon Stone et al. BMJ. .
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