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dc.contributor.authorDineen, M
dc.contributor.authorSidaway-Lee, K
dc.contributor.authorPereira Gray, D
dc.contributor.authorEvans, PH
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-26T14:32:50Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-27
dc.date.updated2022-07-26T13:39:21Z
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: In order to integrate genomic medicine into routine patient care and stratify personal risk, it is increasingly important to record family history (FH) information in general/family practice records. This is true for classic genetic disease as well as multifactorial conditions. Research suggests that FH recording is currently inadequate. OBJECTIVES: To provide an up-to-date analysis of the frequency, quality, and accuracy of FH recording in UK general/family practice. METHODS: An exploratory study, based at St Leonard's Practice, Exeter-a suburban UK general/family practice. Selected adult patients registered for over 1 year were contacted by post and asked to complete a written FH questionnaire. The reported information was compared with the patients' electronic medical record (EMR). Each EMR was assessed for its frequency (how often information was recorded), quality (the level of detail included), and accuracy (how closely the information matched the patient report) of FH recording. RESULTS: Two hundred and forty-one patients were approached, 65 (27.0%) responded and 62 (25.7%) were eligible to participate. Forty-three (69.4%) EMRs contained FH information. The most commonly recorded conditions were bowel cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. The mean quality score was 3.64 (out of 5). There was little negative recording. 83.2% of patient-reported FH information was inaccurately recorded or missing from the EMRs. CONCLUSION: FH information in general/family practice records should be better prepared for the genomic era. Whilst some conditions are well recorded, there is a need for more frequent, higher quality recording with greater accuracy, especially for multifactorial conditions.en_GB
dc.format.extent610-615
dc.format.mediumPrint-Electronic
dc.identifier.citationVol. 39(4), pp. 610-615en_GB
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab117
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/130398
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0002-5277-3545 (Evans, Philip H)
dc.identifierScopusID: 55732332800 | 7402236028 (Evans, Philip H)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34568898en_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_GB
dc.subjectfamily historyen_GB
dc.subjectfamily medicineen_GB
dc.subjectfamily practiceen_GB
dc.subjectgeneral practiceen_GB
dc.subjectgenomic medicineen_GB
dc.subjectmedical recordsen_GB
dc.titleFamily history recording in UK general practice: the lIFeLONG studyen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2022-07-26T14:32:50Z
dc.identifier.issn0263-2136
exeter.place-of-publicationEngland
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.descriptionData availability: The data underlying this article are available in the article and in its online supplementary material.en_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1460-2229
dc.identifier.journalFamily Practiceen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofFam Pract, 39(4)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
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refterms.dateFOA2022-07-26T14:32:50Z
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