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Classification | Reference |
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Pain without organic, observable, and objective symptoms | Bernardes et al. [6] |
Pain without obvious cause | Bernardes et al. [6] |
Medically unexplained symptoms | Barsky et al. [8] |
Diagnoses of nonspecific symptoms and signs | Hamberg et al. [22] |
Nonspecific symptom diagnoses | Hamberg et al. [22] |
Chronic pain with unclear cause | Jarrett [53] |
Disorders in the absence of organic lesions | Katz et al. [69] |
Conditions, typically chronic, where no pathology can be identified in biomedical terms on diagnostic investigation | Grace [70] |
Somatically experienced health problems that have no corresponding pathology | Grace [70] |
Pain without objectively verifiable evidence of a somatic disease | Grace [70] |
Pain without organic pathology | Grace [70] |
A cluster of common and troubling symptoms (e.g., pain, fatigue, and mood irregularities) that are not attributable to any organic abnormality | Barker [71] |
Disorders with a lack of conventional biomedical evidence | Barker [71] |
Medically unexplained disorders | Werner et al. [75] |
Pain in the absence of “objective” diagnostic evidence of pathology | Bernardes and Lima [77] |
Chronic pain without organic cause | Pujal and Mora [80] |
Chronic nonmalignant pain | Skuladottir and Halldorsdottir [81] |
“Medically unexplained symptoms” | Tait et al. [82] |
Pain in the absence of diagnostic evidence of pathology | Bernardes et al. [84] |
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