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What should we say to patients with symptoms unexplained by disease? The “number needed to offend”
BMJ 2002; 325 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1449 (Published 21 December 2002) Cite this as: BMJ 2002;325:1449Data supplement
Posted as supplied by author. The "number needed to offend"—the number of patients that you would have to give this diagnosis to before one thinks you are suggesting that they are "putting it on," "mad," or "imagining their symptoms" (bars represent 95% confidence intervals)
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