Bates' Advanced Health Assessment Chapters 1-4, & 7 (Health History,
HEENT)
1. When is a comprehensive health history typically conducted?
Answer: A comprehensive health history is typically conducted for new patients with a chief complaint
or for those who require a thorough assessment.
2. What type of assessment involves all elements of the health history and the complete physical
examination?
Answer: A comprehensive assessment involves all elements of the health history and the complete
physical examination.
3. What type of assessment is suitable for patients who are familiar to the healthcare provider or those
with urgent care concerns?
Answer: A focused or problem-oriented assessment is suitable for patients who are familiar to the
healthcare provider or those with urgent care concerns.
4. What refers to the information provided by the patient?
Answer: Subjective data refers to the information provided by the patient.
5. What refers to the information detected during the physical examination?
Answer: Objective data refers to the information detected during the physical examination.
6. What are the components of a comprehensive health history?
,Answer: The components of a comprehensive health history include identifying data and source of the
history, reliability, chief complaint, present illness, past history, family history, personal and social
history, and review of systems.
7. Is the following information subjective or objective?
Answer: The statement "Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10 days; it is
worse with activity and relieved by rest" is subjective.
8. Is the following information subjective or objective?
Answer: The statement "Mr. M. has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120" is objective.
9. What are the seven attributes of a symptom?
Answer: The seven attributes of a symptom are location, quality, quantity or severity, timing (including
onset, duration, and frequency), setting in which it occurs, factors that have aggravated or relieved the
symptom, and associated manifestations.
10. Which category does the following information belong to?
Answer: The statement "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" belongs to present illness.
11. Which category does the following information belong to?
Answer: The statement "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" belongs to
personal and social history.
12. Which category does the following information belong to?
, Answer: The statement "I feel really tired" belongs to chief complaint.
The following information is recorded in the health history: "Patient denies chest pain, palpitations,
orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea."
Which category does it belong to?
Present illness
chief complaint
personal and social history
review of systems ✔️review of systems
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient has had three cesarean sections."
Adult illness
Surgeries
Obstetric/gynecology
psychiatric ✔️Surgeries
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient had a stent placed in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) in 1999."
Adult illness
Surgeries
Obstetric/gynecology
psychiatric ✔️Adult illness
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient was treated for an asthma exacerbation in the hospital last year; the patient has never
been intubated."
Adult illness
HEENT)
1. When is a comprehensive health history typically conducted?
Answer: A comprehensive health history is typically conducted for new patients with a chief complaint
or for those who require a thorough assessment.
2. What type of assessment involves all elements of the health history and the complete physical
examination?
Answer: A comprehensive assessment involves all elements of the health history and the complete
physical examination.
3. What type of assessment is suitable for patients who are familiar to the healthcare provider or those
with urgent care concerns?
Answer: A focused or problem-oriented assessment is suitable for patients who are familiar to the
healthcare provider or those with urgent care concerns.
4. What refers to the information provided by the patient?
Answer: Subjective data refers to the information provided by the patient.
5. What refers to the information detected during the physical examination?
Answer: Objective data refers to the information detected during the physical examination.
6. What are the components of a comprehensive health history?
,Answer: The components of a comprehensive health history include identifying data and source of the
history, reliability, chief complaint, present illness, past history, family history, personal and social
history, and review of systems.
7. Is the following information subjective or objective?
Answer: The statement "Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10 days; it is
worse with activity and relieved by rest" is subjective.
8. Is the following information subjective or objective?
Answer: The statement "Mr. M. has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120" is objective.
9. What are the seven attributes of a symptom?
Answer: The seven attributes of a symptom are location, quality, quantity or severity, timing (including
onset, duration, and frequency), setting in which it occurs, factors that have aggravated or relieved the
symptom, and associated manifestations.
10. Which category does the following information belong to?
Answer: The statement "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" belongs to present illness.
11. Which category does the following information belong to?
Answer: The statement "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" belongs to
personal and social history.
12. Which category does the following information belong to?
, Answer: The statement "I feel really tired" belongs to chief complaint.
The following information is recorded in the health history: "Patient denies chest pain, palpitations,
orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea."
Which category does it belong to?
Present illness
chief complaint
personal and social history
review of systems ✔️review of systems
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient has had three cesarean sections."
Adult illness
Surgeries
Obstetric/gynecology
psychiatric ✔️Surgeries
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient had a stent placed in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) in 1999."
Adult illness
Surgeries
Obstetric/gynecology
psychiatric ✔️Adult illness
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient was treated for an asthma exacerbation in the hospital last year; the patient has never
been intubated."
Adult illness
