Factitious Disorder: a systematic review of 455 cases in the professional literature

Patients with factitious disorder (FD) fabricate illness, injury or impairment for psychological reasons and, as a result, misapply medical resources. The demographic and clinical profile of these patients has yet to be described in a sufficiently large sample, which has prevented clinicians from adopting an evidence-based approach to FD.The present study aimed to address this issue through a systematic review of cases reported in the professional literature.
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research