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What is the most important element of a complete health history?
What is the most important element of a complete health history?
- Source of history
- Chief complaint
- Biographical data (correct)
- Chronological order of symptoms
What is the purpose of the history of present illness?
What is the purpose of the history of present illness?
- To arrange symptoms in chronological order (correct)
- To provide biographical data
- To provide a source of history
- To provide a chief complaint
What should be included in the chief complaint?
What should be included in the chief complaint?
- Biographical data
- Chronological order of symptoms
- A statement in the person's own words (correct)
- A reliable source of history
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- The complete health history includes 1) biographical data, such as name, age, gender, birthplace, residency, marital status, occupation, religion, and ethnicity, 2) source of history, such as the person herself or a relative, friend, and how reliable they are, and 3) chief complaint(reason for seeking care), which is a brief spontaneous statement in the person's own words that describes the reason for the visit.
- The history of present illness arranges symptoms in chronological order from the time of onset to the present time. Include an analysis of the symptom and characteristics.
- Summarize the key facts from the text above in 10 sentences.
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