Learn your family's health history. It can help your doctor choose the screening tests that might be right for you. It's most important to talk to your parents, brothers and sisters. But you might also want to talk to your grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, half-brother...
just using standard medical symbols in a pedigree format - squares for men and circles for women. You can either use a standard key or create your own which specifies what your symbols mean. If you find the forms too complicated, just collect the information. Your doctor will still be ...
During the early 1990s Porter called for the patient to be brought into the focus of medical history, and Risse and Warner drew attention to patient case records as a means of doing so. In the near twenty years which has passed since, however, patient records have still not been utilized ...
The terminology selected CHAPTER 1 HISTORY AND DEFINITIONS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE 23 by various scholars may not convey the extent of harm a specific act may cause. Some forms of physical violence, such as cutting with a knife, cause observable physical harm, while others, such as emotional ...
We analyzed several pieces of information for each subject at baseline: demographic data (age and gender), family medical history (close relatives), and lifestyle data such as smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity. Laboratory parameters were measured in the morning after overnight fasti...
As she argues, "disability and impairment were forms of evidence presented in trials, drawn from a wider social discourse that devalued disabled bodies" (p. 140). Finally, in her last [End Page 722] chapter, Pitts shows how married women's testamentary capacity was doubly impaired by the ...
My first thought was American slavery, but with what I had researched of my family history, slavery did not seem right. None of my ancestors, not even in colonial times, were involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Living up North in Buffalo, New York, near the Canadian border, I ...
Table 2 Organisational forms of practices in the studied countries Full size table Opening hours (availability of services) are regulated in all countries. The working time differs and is presented in Figure 4. The average minimum working hours are around 40 hours/week, but in case of the Czec...
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Any other medical intervention used by study participants will be recorded in the electronic Case Report Forms (eCRF) to analyse the potential influence on outcomes. Throughout the trial, participants’ medication can be re-evaluated by their GPs based on clinical needs. Cases may arise when the...