January Focus

摘要

This month Hannaford's group revisits the symptom iceberg, that mass of undeclared symptoms experienced in the community that lies below the waterline of medical consultation (page 12). They studied 2-week symptom recall in 2474 adults under 60, half of whom had experienced one or more of a list of 25 symptoms offered to them, and found that individuals reported a mean of 3.66 different symptoms. There were predictable relationships between the number of symptoms experienced and a range of demographic parameters