Medical History Taking

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society. 
  • A medical history of Governor John B. Connally and his gunshot wounds. 
  • A multidisciplinary approach in the evaluation of demented drivers referred to geriatric assessment centers. 
  • A pragmatic neurological screen for patients with suspected cord compressive myelopathy. 
  • A study of the reliability of the family history method in genetic studies of Alzheimer disease. 
  • Adapting the human-computer interface for reading literacy and computer skill to facilitate collection of information directly from patients. 
  • Adapting the human-computer interface for reading literacy and computer skill to facilitate collection of information directly from patients. 
  • Adenocarcinoma of the liver without a detectable primary. 
  • An automated "well-baby" questionnaire. 
  • An electronic family health history tool to identify and manage patients at increased risk for colorectal cancer: protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • An interdisciplinary expert consensus statement on assessment of pain in older persons. 
  • An international consensus on the appropriate evaluation and treatment for adults with spinal deformity. 
  • Anatomy, pathophysiology, and biomechanics of shoulder instability. 
  • Are time or intensity factors important to the definition of metastases of unknown origin? 
  • At the intersection of precision medicine and population health: an implementation-effectiveness study of family health history based systematic risk assessment in primary care. 
  • Autosomal Dominant Hyper-IgE Syndrome in the USIDNET Registry. 
  • Awareness of family health history in a predominantly young adult population. 
  • Benefits to patient care of electronically capturing patient-reported outcomes in dermatology. 
  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia. New concepts in the 1990s. 
  • Cardiovascular screening in asymptomatic adults: lessons for the diving world. 
  • Changing physician knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about migraine: evaluation of a new educational intervention. 
  • Childhood cancer survivors and primary care physicians. 
  • Chronic Ear Disease. 
  • Clear writing, clear thinking and the disappearing art of the problem list. 
  • Clinical Approach to Diffuse Blisters. 
  • Clinical Prediction Models for Sleep Apnea: The Importance of Medical History over Symptoms. 
  • Clinical diagnosis of endophthalmitis. 
  • Clinical evaluation for sinusitis. Making the diagnosis by history and physical examination. 
  • Clinical utility of a Web-enabled risk-assessment and clinical decision support program. 
  • Clinically relevant changes in family history of cancer over time. 
  • Collection of family health history for assessment of chronic disease risk in primary care. 
  • Combination of Goldman risk and initial cardiac troponin I for emergency department chest pain patient risk stratification. 
  • Congestive heart failure: Dx and Rx in the elderly. 
  • Cost Comparison of Genetic Testing Strategies in Women With Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of the diagnosis of meniscus tears. 
  • Coupling direct collection of health risk information from patients through kiosks with decision support for proactive care management. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Detection of subclinical fabry disease in patients presenting with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Development and Validation of A Male Anterior Urethral Stricture Classification System. 
  • Development and pilot testing of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) on hoarseness. 
  • Development and validation of a primary care-based family health history and decision support program (MeTree). 
  • Development of the Child Health Indicator Assessment (CHIA) in a community-based nurse-managed center. 
  • Diagnostic strategies for unknown primary cancer. 
  • Differences in history of sexual behavior between patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma and patients with squamous cell carcinoma at other head and neck sites. 
  • Difficult behaviors in long-term care patients with dementia. 
  • Difficult behaviors in long-term care patients with dementia. 
  • Documentation of violence risk information in psychiatric hospital patient charts: an empirical examination. 
  • Does this child have acute otitis media? 
  • Does this patient have obstructive sleep apnea?: The Rational Clinical Examination systematic review. 
  • Does this patient have pulmonary embolism? 
  • Does this patient have sinusitis? Diagnosing acute sinusitis by history and physical examination. 
  • Does this patient with headache have a migraine or need neuroimaging? 
  • Does this patient with shoulder pain have rotator cuff disease?: The Rational Clinical Examination systematic review. 
  • Does this woman have an acute uncomplicated urinary tract infection? 
  • Doha agreement meeting on terminology and definitions in groin pain in athletes. 
  • Effect of Sociodemographic Factors on Uptake of a Patient-Facing Information Technology Family Health History Risk Assessment Platform. 
  • Effect of patient history data on the prediction of breast cancer from mammographic findings with artificial neural networks. 
  • Environmental factors in the etiology of rhabdomyosarcoma in childhood. 
  • Estimating the likelihood of severe coronary artery disease. 
  • Estimating the likelihood of significant coronary artery disease. 
  • Evaluating cost-effectiveness of preevaluation client contacts. 
  • Evaluating loss of consciousness in the elderly. 
  • Evaluating the yield of medical tests. 
  • Evaluation of an audio mode of the automated medical history. 
  • Evaluation of the patient with recurrent vertigo. 
  • Evidence-Based Medicine Approach to Abdominal Pain. 
  • Examination without interview. Learning about the physical examination as a diagnostic tool. 
  • Expanding the Molecular Autopsy to Uncover Occult Cardiomyopathy: Concealed to Revealed. 
  • Familial hypercholesterolemia: Detect, treat, and ask about family. 
  • Family and personal medical history and risk of meningioma. 
  • Family health history: underused for actionable risk assessment. 
  • Family history assessment significantly enhances delivery of precision medicine in the genomics era. 
  • Family history of atrial fibrillation is associated with earlier-onset and more symptomatic atrial fibrillation: Results from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) registry. 
  • Family history of cancer and risk of sporadic differentiated thyroid carcinoma. 
  • Family history of prostate cancer and prostate tumor aggressiveness in black and non-black men;results from an equal access biopsy study. 
  • Family pain history predicts child health status in children with chronic rheumatic disease. 
  • First- and second-degree family history of ovarian and breast cancer in relation to risk of invasive ovarian cancer in African American and white women. 
  • Food allergy. 
  • Food allergy. 
  • Generalized anxiety disorder. An important clinical concern. 
  • Getting back to basics. 
  • Hearing the story. The persisting importance of the history in a technological age. 
  • Hemodynamic profiles of advanced heart failure: association with clinical characteristics and long-term outcomes. 
  • History of gestational diabetes mellitus and postpartum maternal retinal microvascular structure and function. 
  • How should we construct psychiatric family history scores? A comparison of alternative approaches from the Dunedin Family Health History Study. 
  • Impact of Genetic Testing and Family Health History Based Risk Counseling on Behavior Change and Cognitive Precursors for Type 2 Diabetes. 
  • Impact of early personal-history characteristics on the Pace of Aging: implications for clinical trials of therapies to slow aging and extend healthspan. 
  • Implementation of health risk assessments with family health history: barriers and benefits. 
  • Implementation, adoption, and utility of family health history risk assessment in diverse care settings: evaluating implementation processes and impact with an implementation framework. 
  • Implementation-effectiveness trial of systematic family health history based risk assessment and impact on clinical disease prevention and surveillance activities. 
  • Implementing family health history risk stratification in primary care: impact of guideline criteria on populations and resource demand. 
  • Improving Utilization of the Family History in the Electronic Health Record. 
  • Improving health by taking it personally. 
  • Incidence of caffeine in serum of patients undergoing dipyridamole myocardial perfusion stress test by an intensive versus routine caffeine history screening. 
  • Inpatient medication reconciliation at admission and discharge: A retrospective cohort study of age and other risk factors for medication discrepancies. 
  • Integrative tumor board: recurrent breast cancer or new primary? UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. 
  • Interaction exchange structure and patient satisfaction with medical interviews. 
  • Interdigital neuralgia. 
  • Is stroke history reliably reported by elderly with cognitive impairment? A community-based study. 
  • Malaria: a rising incidence in the United States. 
  • Managing Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in Women at Risk of Thrombosis. 
  • Medical Management of Patients With a Left Ventricular Assist Device for the Non-Left Ventricular Assist Device Specialist. 
  • Medical history for prognostic risk assessment and diagnosis of stable patients with suspected coronary artery disease. 
  • Menstrual cycle-dependent variations of breast cyst fluid proteins and sex steroid receptors in the normal human breast. 
  • Multiple myeloma and family history of cancer. A case-control study. 
  • Nutrition assessment of the critically ill adult. 
  • Ovulation and ovarian cancer: a comparison of two methods for calculating lifetime ovulatory cycles (United States). 
  • Patient and primary care provider experience using a family health history collection, risk stratification, and clinical decision support tool: a type 2 hybrid controlled implementation-effectiveness trial. 
  • Patient exposition and physician explanation in initial medical interviews and outcomes of clinic visits. 
  • Pediatric triage: a review of emergency education literature. 
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease. 
  • Penicillin allergy: A practical guide for clinicians. 
  • Perspective: Whither the problem list? Organ-based documentation and deficient synthesis by medical trainees. 
  • Perspectives and Uses of the Electronic Health Record Among US Pediatricians: A National Survey. 
  • Physical examination tests for assessing a torn meniscus in the knee: a systematic review with meta-analysis. 
  • Physical robustness and resilience among long-lived female siblings: a comparison with sporadic long-livers. 
  • Posterolateral rotatory instability of the elbow. 
  • Pre-participation physical evaluations for athletes. 
  • Probability of carrying a mutation of breast-ovarian cancer gene BRCA1 based on family history. 
  • Prostate cancer early detection practices among men with a family history of disease. 
  • Protocol for implementation of family health history collection and decision support into primary care using a computerized family health history system. 
  • Providing patient education: impact on quantity and quality of family health history collection. 
  • Quality of family history collection with use of a patient facing family history assessment tool. 
  • Quality of occupational history assessments in working age adults with newly diagnosed asthma. 
  • Quantitating bedside diagnosis: clinical evaluation of ascites. 
  • Recollection of childhood events in adults with irritable bowel syndrome. 
  • Recommendations from multi-disciplinary focus groups on cascade testing and genetic counseling for fragile X-associated disorders. 
  • Reconsidering the family history in primary care. 
  • Relationships among breast cancer concern, risk perceptions, and interest in genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility among African-American women with and without a family history of breast cancer. 
  • Reminders of cancer risk and pain catastrophizing: relationships with cancer worry and perceived risk in women with a first-degree relative with breast cancer. 
  • Response to Isolated Diastolic Hypertension and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Controversies in Hypertension - Con Side of the Argument. 
  • Risk indexes for exacerbations and hospitalizations due to COPD. 
  • STUDENTJAMA. Taking a spiritual history. 
  • Secondary amenorrhea: Diagnostic approach and treatment considerations. 
  • Spiritual assessment in medical practice. 
  • Stability of self-reported family history of prostate cancer among African American men. 
  • The ABC (age, biomarkers, clinical history) stroke risk score: a biomarker-based risk score for predicting stroke in atrial fibrillation. 
  • The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) Multidimensional Approach to Classifying Acute Pain Conditions. 
  • The Constitutional Type Questionnaire: validation in the patient population of the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. 
  • The Impact of Whole-Genome Sequencing on the Primary Care and Outcomes of Healthy Adult Patients: A Pilot Randomized Trial. 
  • The STARD statement for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies: application to the history and physical examination. 
  • The clinical value of a cluster of patient history and observational findings as a diagnostic support tool for lumbar spine stenosis. 
  • The effects of health histories on stochastic process models of aging and mortality. 
  • The enduring importance of family health history in the era of genomic medicine and risk assessment. 
  • The influence of history on interobserver agreement for diagnosing actinic keratoses and malignant skin lesions. 
  • The proactive sexual health history. 
  • The psychiatric use of electrically induced seizures. 
  • The rational clinical examination. Clinical assessment of stroke. 
  • The rational clinical examination. Does this patient have ascites? How to divine fluid in the abdomen. 
  • The rational clinical examination. Is this patient having a myocardial infarction? 
  • The role of smoking and exposure to asbestos and man-made vitreous fibers in a questionable case of mesothelioma. 
  • The spiritual history in outpatient practice: attitudes and practices of health professionals in the Adventist Health System. 
  • The spiritual history. 
  • The validity of the family history screen for assessing family history of mental disorders. 
  • Towards a collaborative filtering approach to medication reconciliation. 
  • Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) collaborative care for patients with axial spondyloarthritis (AcuSpA): protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial. 
  • Understanding Sexual Complaints and History Taking: A Standardized Patient Case on Dyspareunia for Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship Students. 
  • Upper respiratory problems. 
  • Use of a patient-entered family health history tool with decision support in primary care: impact of identification of increased risk patients on genetic counseling attendance. 
  • Use of a tablet computer application to engage patients in updating their medication list. 
  • Use of detailed family history data to improve risk prediction,with application to breast cancer screening. 
  • Use of tablet personal computers for sensitive patient-reported information. 
  • Value of the history and physical in identifying patients at increased risk for coronary artery disease. 
  • Verbal response mode profiles of patients and physicians in medical screening interviews 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Orlando, Lori Ann, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society