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HPI Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
In your own words, describe the significance of an HPI. - answer✔✔The HPI addresses the exact
reason regarding why the patient came into the ED. Determines the rest of the visit.
How is the HPI different from the ROS? - answer✔✔HPI is the chief complaint, the history of
present illness. The ROS is everything about the patient from head to toe, the review of
symptoms.
Name eight "elements of the HPI. - answer✔✔1. Onset
2. Provocation (Modifying Factors)
3. Quality
→Radiation
4. Severity
5. Timing
6. Location
7. Associated Symptoms
8. Context
Name eight of the body systems included in the ROS. - answer✔✔HEENT, Respiratory,
Integumentary, GI, GU, Musculoskeletal, Cardiovascular
Can the symptoms listed in the ROS ever contradict the symptoms described in the HPI? Why or
Why not? - answer✔✔No, because the ROS covers everything in the HPI. Both are subjective.
What do you need to remember to document in the HPI and ROS for any patient that is
unconscious or incapable of providing information? - answer✔✔"Complete ROS and HPI are
unobtainable due to the patient's condition."
Identify the error in this sentence from an example HPI: "pt states the CP has been intermittent
since Thursday." - answer✔✔Needs a specific date.
HPI Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
In your own words, describe the significance of an HPI. - answer✔✔The HPI addresses the exact
reason regarding why the patient came into the ED. Determines the rest of the visit.
How is the HPI different from the ROS? - answer✔✔HPI is the chief complaint, the history of
present illness. The ROS is everything about the patient from head to toe, the review of
symptoms.
Name eight "elements of the HPI. - answer✔✔1. Onset
2. Provocation (Modifying Factors)
3. Quality
→Radiation
4. Severity
5. Timing
6. Location
7. Associated Symptoms
8. Context
Name eight of the body systems included in the ROS. - answer✔✔HEENT, Respiratory,
Integumentary, GI, GU, Musculoskeletal, Cardiovascular
Can the symptoms listed in the ROS ever contradict the symptoms described in the HPI? Why or
Why not? - answer✔✔No, because the ROS covers everything in the HPI. Both are subjective.
What do you need to remember to document in the HPI and ROS for any patient that is
unconscious or incapable of providing information? - answer✔✔"Complete ROS and HPI are
unobtainable due to the patient's condition."
Identify the error in this sentence from an example HPI: "pt states the CP has been intermittent
since Thursday." - answer✔✔Needs a specific date.
