Letter to the EditorTradeoffs between validity and utility in the diagnosis of Somatic Symptom Disorder
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2015, Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchCitation Excerpt :In these debates on clinical decision-making, further discussions of what precisely constitutes functional impairment in SSD are also warranted. Furthermore, the substantial overlap with other medical and mental conditions could mean that (adolescent) SSD is not the valid and homogeneous category that was hoped for [42,43]. Future prospective and etiological research will have to further address this worry.
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