BACKGROUND This paper is an up-to-date systematic review on educational interventions addressing history taking. The authors noted that despite the plethora of specialized training programs designed to enhance students' interviewing skills there had not been a review of the literature to assess the quality of each published method of teaching history taking in undergraduate medical education ba...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Aortic dissection generally is an acute catastrophe. Rapid diagnosis is critical. We hypothesized that the quality of history taking contributes to the accuracy of diagnosis in patients with dissection. DESIGN Retrospective chart review of 83 patients, whose diagnosis of aortic dissection was confirmed by autopsy, surgery, CT scan, echocardiogram, or angiogram. The quality of...

These are not meant to be exhaustive; nor are they meant to be used as a “checklist” to be asked in a certain order. Rather, these questions illustrate approaches that providers can use to explore issues that aff ect the health of newcomer children and adolescents. These questions can be asked of the child and/or parent as appropriate. The issues can be explored directly with the older child or...

BACKGROUND Validated guidelines to manage low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol are utilized inconsistently or not at all even though their application lowers the incidence of coronary events. New approaches are needed, therefore, to implement these guidelines in everyday practice. METHODS AND RESULTS We compared an automated method for applying The National Cholesterol Education Panel (N...