OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to review the role of the family history in predictive
genetic testing, describe how family history taking is practiced in adult primary care, identify …

Purpose: To identify characteristics of physicians, patients, and visits associated with
obtaining family history information in community family practice. Methods: Research nurses …

PURPOSE We wanted to determine the impact of automated family history assessment and
tailored messages for coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, colorectal, breast, and …

OBJECTIVES: Few studies have compared perceptions of risk, worry, severity and control
across multiple diseases. This paper examines how these perceptions vary for heart disease, …

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 diseases. …

With this issue of Annals of Family Medicine, we launch a new feature to help readers build
learning communities to improve health through enhanced understanding of primary care. …

Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of computerized familial risk assessment and tailored
messages for identifying individuals for targeted cancer prevention strategies and motivating …

Hereditary cancer syndromes account for an estimated 5% of breast, ovarian, and colon
cancers. The rapid discovery of cancer‐related genes in the last 15 years has propelled the field …

BACKGROUND Universal tumor screening for Lynch syndrome, the most common form of
hereditary colorectal cancer (CRC), has been recommended among all patients newly …