General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 406-412 , July 2010

Patients with noncardiac chest pain and benign palpitations referred for cardiac outpatient investigation: a 6-month follow-up

  • Egil Jonsbu, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Molde Hospital, 6407 Molde, Norway
    • Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Molde Hospital, 6407 Molde, Norway. Tel.: +47 71122900; fax: +47 71122902.
    • ,
  • Toril Dammen, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Department of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
    • Oslo University Hospital Ullevaal, Department of Psychiatry, 0407 Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • Gunnar Morken, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
    • Østmarka Department of Psychiatry, St Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim Norway
    • ,
  • Egil W. Martinsen, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, 0318 Oslo, Norway
    • Oslo University Hospital, Aker, 0514 Oslo, Norway

Received 22 December 2009 ,Accepted 9 March 2010.

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☆ Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

PII: S0163-8343(10)00053-8

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.03.003

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 406-412 , July 2010

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