The careful assessment tool for managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms – The experience of Slovenian family medicine trainees: A qualitative study

Abstract

Primary care physicians use various tools and methods to identify medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). The main purpose of our study is to determine the views of Slovenian family medicine trainees (FMT) about using the “Careful Assessment” tool for managing patients with MUS.

Keywords

• medically unexplained symptoms
• careful assessment tool
• family medicine
• qualitative studies
• family medicine trainees
• medicinsko nepojasnjena stanja
• orodje skrbna ocena
• družinska medicina
• kvalitativne raziskave
• specializanti