Context The greatest public health benefit of advances in understanding the human genome
may be realized for common chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes …

Systematic collection of family history is a prerequisite for identifying genetic risk. This study
reviewed tools applicable to the primary care assessment of family history of breast …

Importance Clinical decision support (CDS) algorithms are increasingly being implemented
in health care systems to identify patients for specialty care. However, systematic differences …

Family health history reflects the effects of genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors
and is an important risk factor for a variety of disorders including coronary heart disease …

Background: Evidence of the value of systematically collecting family history in primary care
is limited. Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of systematically collecting family history of …

CONTEXT: Family history is a risk factor for many common chronic diseases, yet it remains
underutilized in primary care practice. BACKGROUND: Family Healthware™ is a self …

Purpose: To determine whether family medical history as a risk factor for six common
diseases is related to patients' perceptions of risk, worry, and control over getting these …

METHODS We describe the guiding principles, operational characteristics, algorithm
development, and coding used to develop MeTree. Validation was performed through …

Background: Accurate family history information is required for adequate breast and
colorectal cancer risk assessments. Few studies have examined the comprehensiveness of …

This systematic review was undertaken to:(1) evaluate the accuracy of patient reporting of
cancer family history;(2) identify and evaluate tools designed to capture cancer family history …