… However, as data accumulate on the validity and utility of using family history as a screening
tool, the availability of risk-specific interventions may change. The current version of Family …

… Given such family history knowledge and the public health … , family history may provide a
useful screening tool for … -reported family history of T2DM as a potential screening tool to identify …

… family history … family history screening tool for systematic family history assessment in
primary care. As approximately 40% of the adult primary care population will have a family history …

… develop an even more robust family history-based screening tool. Finally, family history can
be used more broadly as a population-based screening tool for identifying groups of people …

… If it can be shown that family history can aid in risk stratification, improve early detection and
… promoting behaviors, then family history could be used as a screening tool to find high- and …

… However, the issue of using family history to screen for diabetes must be discussed … screening
can take place and emphasizes the use of a family history of diabetes as a screening tool. …

… Taking a thorough but concise family history incorporates … to use the family history as an
initial screening tool and how … is appropriate for an initial screening tool. A detailed pedigree …

… family history (see Figure: “Steps for Family History Gathering”). The PCP should ask health
questions for each individual in the family. … disease often affects families in psychological as …

… Assuming that the sensitivity and specificity of the screening tests for colorectal cancer (eg, …
initiating colorectal cancer screening at age 40 for patients with a positive family history. Thus, …

… When evaluating family history as a public health tool, … using family history as a screening
tool. These issues as well as a review of the epidemiologic evidence evaluating family history …