Family history (medicine)

In medicine, a family history (FH or FHx) consists of information about disorders of direct blood relatives of the patient.^[1] Genealogy typically includes very little of the medical history of the family, but the medical history could be considered a specific subset of the total history of a family.^{[citation needed]} Accurate knowledge of a patient's family history may identify a predisposition to developing certain illnesses, which can inform clinical decisions and allow effective management or even prevention of conditions.^[2]^[3]

^ "Family Health History: The Basics". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
^ Wu, R. Ryanne; Myers, Rachel A.; Sperber, Nina; Voils, Corrine I.; Neuner, Joan; McCarty, Catherine A.; Haller, Irina V.; Harry, Melissa; Fulda, Kimberly G.; Cross, Deanna; Dimmock, David (February 2019). "Implementation, adoption, and utility of family health history risk assessment in diverse care settings: evaluating implementation processes and impact with an implementation framework". Genetics in Medicine. 21 (2): 331–338. doi:10.1038/s41436-018-0049-x. ISSN 1530-0366. PMC 6281814. PMID 29875427.
^ Orlando, Lori A.; Wu, R. Ryanne; Myers, Rachel A.; Neuner, Joan; McCarty, Catherine; Haller, Irina V.; Harry, Melissa; Fulda, Kimberly G.; Dimmock, David; Rakhra-Burris, Teji; Buchanan, Adam (2020-11-07). "At the intersection of precision medicine and population health: an implementation-effectiveness study of family health history based systematic risk assessment in primary care". BMC Health Services Research. 20 (1): 1015. doi:10.1186/s12913-020-05868-1. ISSN 1472-6963. PMC 7648301. PMID 33160339.

[1] "Family Health History: The Basics". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 24 October 2020.

[2] Wu, R. Ryanne; Myers, Rachel A.; Sperber, Nina; Voils, Corrine I.; Neuner, Joan; McCarty, Catherine A.; Haller, Irina V.; Harry, Melissa; Fulda, Kimberly G.; Cross, Deanna; Dimmock, David (February 2019). "Implementation, adoption, and utility of family health history risk assessment in diverse care settings: evaluating implementation processes and impact with an implementation framework". Genetics in Medicine. 21 (2): 331–338. doi:10.1038/s41436-018-0049-x. ISSN 1530-0366. PMC 6281814. PMID 29875427.

[3] Orlando, Lori A.; Wu, R. Ryanne; Myers, Rachel A.; Neuner, Joan; McCarty, Catherine; Haller, Irina V.; Harry, Melissa; Fulda, Kimberly G.; Dimmock, David; Rakhra-Burris, Teji; Buchanan, Adam (2020-11-07). "At the intersection of precision medicine and population health: an implementation-effectiveness study of family health history based systematic risk assessment in primary care". BMC Health Services Research. 20 (1): 1015. doi:10.1186/s12913-020-05868-1. ISSN 1472-6963. PMC 7648301. PMID 33160339.

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