Baker, David W.; Shapiro, Martin F.; Schur, Claudia L.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 47 (1998) 10, pp. 1601-1609
The objective was to determine physicians' ratings of the clinical importance of common adult symptoms and to use these ratings to develop a new measure of symptom-specific use of health care services. We developed a list of common symptoms using the National Ambulatory Medical Care survey. We...