Abstract

The GP has a key role in identifying patients presenting with anxiety symptoms and ensuring appropriate acute and long-term management. There are two key messages for GPs to follow: once you have made a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder, tell the patient you have a treatment for it. Second, do not let your anxiety lead you to prescribe inappropriately or overinvestigate for all possible differential diagnoses.

Keywords

anxiety symptoms, investigation, diagnosis, treatment, long-term management

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This article originally published in "Medicine Today".

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© Medicine Today 2016 (http://www.medicinetoday.com.au).

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