ReviewLancet (London, England)2019
Family health history: underused for actionable risk assessment.
Review in Lancet (London, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
58 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 108 citations in OpenAlex.
- Family history tools for primary care: A systematic review.The European journal of general practice · 2022Pooled it
- Gender differences in self-reported family history of cancer: A review and secondary data analysis.Cancer medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Utility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories among vulnerable patient populations: A randomized controlled trial.Patient education and counseling · 2021Trial
- Inherited risk of coronary artery disease: redefining care with imaging and genetics.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2026Review
- Quality and Safety Imperatives in the Identification and Management of Hereditary Cancer Syndromes.Seminars in oncology nursing · 2026Review
- Routine family history inquiry among family physicians: associations with perceived clinical usefulness and barriers: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Sustained delivery of diagnostic and preventive genomics in primary care: a five-year real-world cohort from a family medicine-embedded multidisciplinary clinic.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers to Collection of Family Health History Data.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM · 2026Article
- Perceptions of family health history in an East Baltimore community.Journal of community genetics · 2025Article
- An Innovative Strategy for Collecting Family Health History: An Effectiveness-Implementation Trial in Primary Care Clinics.Annals of family medicine · 2025Article
- 10 tips on how to take a proper family history in CKD patient care.Clinical kidney journal · 2025Review
- Increased colorectal and endometrial cancer rates in a genomically ascertained Lynch syndrome cohort.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2025Article
- The case for integrating genetic counselors into primary care: A paradigm shift for our profession.Journal of genetic counseling · 2025Article
- Creating a family health history interview protocol for use with undergraduate health professional students: A scoping review.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2025Review
- Familial clustering of diabetic kidney disease and retinopathy in offspring of parents with type 1 diabetes: a population-based study.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Misattributed paternity discovery: A critique of medical organizations' recommendations.American journal of human genetics · 2025Review
- Enhancing patient representation learning with inferred family pedigrees improves disease risk prediction.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Genetic analysis for diagnosing local recurrence of sigmoid colon cancer mimicking a small intestinal tumor: a case report.World journal of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Development of a digital risk-prediction tool based on family health history for the general population: legal and ethical implications.Journal of community genetics · 2025Article
- The Burden of Chronic Diseases with the Status of Family Medical History Among Older Adults in India.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Family health history (FHH) is the most useful means of assessing risk for common chronic diseases. The odds ratio for risk of developing disease with a positive FHH is frequently greater than 2, and actions can be taken to mitigate risk by adhering to screening guidelines, genetic counselling, genetic risk testing, and other screening methods. Challenges to the routine acquisition of FHH include constraints on provider time to collect data and the difficulty in accessing risk calculators. Disease-specific and broader risk assessment software platforms have been developed, many with clinical decision support and informatics interoperability, but few access patient information directly. Software that allows integration of FHH with the electronic medical record and clinical decision support capabilities has provided solutions to many of these challenges. Patient facing, electronic medical record, and web-enabled FHH platforms have been developed, and can provide greater identification of risk compared with conventional FHH ascertainment in primary care. FHH, along with cascade screening, can be an important component of population health management approaches to overall reduction of risk.
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