HEALTH HISTORY, HEENT |QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100%|GRADE A+|LATEST 2024/2025
For which of the following patients would a comprehensive health history be
appropriate? - ✔✔A new patient with the chief complaint of "I am here to establish
care"
comprehensive assessment - ✔✔all the elements of the health history and the
complete physical examination
focused or problem-oriented assessment - ✔✔for patients that you know well that
are returning for routine office care or for patients with specific "urgent care"
concerns
subjective data - ✔✔what the patient tells you
objective data - ✔✔what you detect during the examination. All physical
examination findings.
Name the components of the health history. - ✔✔Review of systems, present
illness, personal and social items.
Also: identifying data and source of the history; reliability, chief complaints,
present illness, past history, family history, personal and social history, review of
systems.
Is the following information subjective or objective?
, Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10 days; it is worse
with activity and relieved by rest - ✔✔Subjective
Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120 - ✔✔Objective
seven attributes of a symptom - ✔✔1. Location
2. Quality
3. Quantity or severity
4. Timing (including onset, duration, and frequency)
5. The setting in which it occurs
6. factors that have aggravated or relieved the symptom
7. associated manifestations
The following information is recorded in the health history: "The patient has had
abdominal pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30 minutes at a time; it comes and
goes. The severity is 7 to 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and
vomiting. It is located in the mid-epigastric area."
Which of these categories does it belong to?
A. Present illness
B. Chief complaint
C. Personal and social history
D. Review of systems - ✔✔present illness
The following information is recorded in the health history: "The patient completed
8th grade. He currently lives with his wife and two children. He works on old cars
on the weekend. He works in a glass factory during the week."
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100%|GRADE A+|LATEST 2024/2025
For which of the following patients would a comprehensive health history be
appropriate? - ✔✔A new patient with the chief complaint of "I am here to establish
care"
comprehensive assessment - ✔✔all the elements of the health history and the
complete physical examination
focused or problem-oriented assessment - ✔✔for patients that you know well that
are returning for routine office care or for patients with specific "urgent care"
concerns
subjective data - ✔✔what the patient tells you
objective data - ✔✔what you detect during the examination. All physical
examination findings.
Name the components of the health history. - ✔✔Review of systems, present
illness, personal and social items.
Also: identifying data and source of the history; reliability, chief complaints,
present illness, past history, family history, personal and social history, review of
systems.
Is the following information subjective or objective?
, Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10 days; it is worse
with activity and relieved by rest - ✔✔Subjective
Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120 - ✔✔Objective
seven attributes of a symptom - ✔✔1. Location
2. Quality
3. Quantity or severity
4. Timing (including onset, duration, and frequency)
5. The setting in which it occurs
6. factors that have aggravated or relieved the symptom
7. associated manifestations
The following information is recorded in the health history: "The patient has had
abdominal pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30 minutes at a time; it comes and
goes. The severity is 7 to 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and
vomiting. It is located in the mid-epigastric area."
Which of these categories does it belong to?
A. Present illness
B. Chief complaint
C. Personal and social history
D. Review of systems - ✔✔present illness
The following information is recorded in the health history: "The patient completed
8th grade. He currently lives with his wife and two children. He works on old cars
on the weekend. He works in a glass factory during the week."
