Family history and risk assessment (test version)
Description: Web implementation of a brief self-completed family history screening tool for common chronic disease prevention in primary care
Publet Introduction: Family history is an important risk factor for many common chronic diseases, but it remains underutilised for diagnostic assessment and disease prevention in routine primary care. The authors have developed and validated a brief self-completed family history questionnaire (FHQ) for systematic primary care assessment for family history of diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer. This brief self-completed FHQ shows good diagnostic accuracy for identifying people at higher risk of four common chronic diseases. It could be used in routine primary care to identify patients who would be most likely to benefit from a more detailed pedigree and risk assessment, and consequent management strategies.
Authors: Fiona M Walter, A Toby Prevost, Linda Birt, Nicola Grehan, Kathy Restarick, Helen C Morris, Stephen Sutton, Peter Rose, Sarah Downing and Jon D Emery
Family history is an important risk factor for many common chronic
diseases, but it remains underutilised for diagnostic assessment and
disease prevention in routine primary care. The authors have developed
and validated a brief self-completed family history questionnaire (FHQ)
for systematic primary care assessment for family history of diabetes,
ischaemic heart disease, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer. This
brief self-completed FHQ shows good diagnostic accuracy for identifying
people at higher risk of four common chronic diseases. It could be used
in routine primary care to identify patients who would be most likely to
benefit from a more detailed pedigree and risk assessment, and
consequent management strategies.
Authors: Fiona
M Walter, A Toby Prevost, Linda Birt, Nicola Grehan, Kathy Restarick,
Helen C Morris, Stephen Sutton, Peter Rose, Sarah Downing and Jon D
Emery
