Coherent care pathways for medically unexplained symptoms

摘要

Warner et al.’s study1 has stimulated interesting conversations among our colleagues and we now write to articulate these thoughts. The study population comprised consultants and trainee doctors. It is not explained why specialty and associate specialist doctors were excluded. We opine that this group of doctors may be very experienced and hold a repository of knowledge of local health resources, valuable to the management of complex patients. As they are often in post and in a service for longer than trainees, their exclusion misses an opportunity to gauge continuity of care received by patients with medically unexplained symptoms.