Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Faults and Implications

The classification of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) could have negative consequences for patients with functional somatic syndromes (FSS). By grouping related but distinct syndromes into one label, the MUS classification fails to inform clinicians about their patients' health condition....

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2019-04, Vol.16 (7), p.1247
Main Author: Tack, Michiel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alzheimer's disease
Arthritis
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Cirrhosis
Classification
Comment
Comorbidity
Conflicts of interest
Family medical history
Fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Humans
Hypotheses
Lupus
Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Mental disorders
Pain
Patients
Psychiatry
Reproducibility of Results
Somatoform Disorders
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Summary:The classification of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) could have negative consequences for patients with functional somatic syndromes (FSS). By grouping related but distinct syndromes into one label, the MUS classification fails to inform clinicians about their patients' health condition. In research settings, the MUS classification makes patient samples more heterogeneous, obstructing research into the underlying pathology of FSS. Long-term studies have shown that MUS are often appraised as medically explained symptoms at follow-up and vice versa, raising doubts about the reliability of this distinction.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph16071247