Background: Family health history can predict a patient's risk for common complex diseases. This project assessed the completeness of family health history data in medica[...]

Introduction: Family health history is a strong predictor of disease risk. To reduce the morbidity and mortality of many chronic diseases, risk-stratified evidence-based [...]

To assess the educational needs of North Carolina primary care physicians (PCPs) about direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing, surveys were mailed to 2,402 family and i[...]

The Genomic Medicine Model aims to facilitate patient engagement, patient/provider education of genomics/personalized medicine, and uptake of risk-stratified evidence-bas[...]

Background: Family health history (FHH) is the single strongest predictor of disease risk and yet is significantly underutilized in primary care. We developed a patient f[...]

The purpose of this study was to assess primary care physicians' awareness, experience, opinions and preparedness to answer patients' questions regarding direct-to-consum[...]

Background: The CDC's Family History Public Health Initiative encourages adoption and increase awareness of family health history. To meet these goals and develop a perso[...]

Background: Family health history (FHH) is an underutilized tool in primary care to identify and risk-stratify individuals with increased cancer risk. Objective: Evaluate[...]

Background: Studies have shown that the quality of family health history (FHH) collection in primary care is inadequate to assess disease risk. To use FHH for risk assess[...]