Patient interview flashcards
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Twenty flashcards on taking a history: structure, mnemonics and red flag questions.
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- OLDCARTS stands for?
- Onset, Location, Duration, Character, Aggravating/alleviating, Radiation, Timing, Severity.
- OPQRST stands for?
- Onset, Provocation, Quality, Region/radiation, Severity, Time.
- SAMPLE stands for?
- Signs/symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past history, Last intake, Events.
- Best first question?
- An open one: "What brings you in today?"
- Two patient identifiers?
- For example full name and date of birth.
- Allergy history must include?
- The drug and what reaction happened.
- Thunderclap headache suggests?
- Bleeding in the brain (subarachnoid hemorrhage).
- Back pain red flag for cauda equina?
- Saddle numbness or new bladder or bowel problems.
- First question in pelvic pain if pregnancy possible?
- Last period and pregnancy test.
- Pack-years formula?
- Packs per day times years smoked.
- AUDIT-C screens for?
- Risky alcohol use.
- Ask about suicide how?
- Directly: "Are you having thoughts of killing yourself?"
- Cough lasting more than 8 weeks is?
- Chronic cough.
- ACE inhibitor side effect to ask about?
- Dry cough.
- Syncope red flag?
- Fainting during exercise.
- Why ask a witness after a seizure?
- The patient often remembers little.
- End every history by asking?
- "Is there anything else?" and their concerns.
- Ideas, concerns, expectations is for?
- Understanding the patient's view.
- Teach-back checks?
- That your explanation was understood.
- Sexual history uses the?
- 5 Ps: partners, practices, protection, past infections, pregnancy.