medical history
information gained by a physician by listening the patient's narrative and asking specific questions, with the aim of obtaining information useful in formulating a diagnosis and providing medical care
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medical history
Summary
medical history ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (706 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- medical history is a type of personally identifiable information[2].
- medical history is a type of personal data[3].
- medical history is a type of event sequence[4].
- medical history's Commons category is recorded as Anamnesis[5].
- medical history comprises chief complaint[6].
- medical history comprises history of the present illness[7].
- medical history comprises past medical history[8].
- medical history comprises family medical history[9].
- medical history comprises social history[10].
- medical history comprises review of systems[11].
- medical history's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
- medical history's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[13].
- medical history's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C18772[14].
- medical history's different from is recorded as past medical history[15].
- medical history's different from is recorded as catamnesis[16].
- medical history's different from is recorded as history of medicine[17].
- medical history's different from is recorded as medical record[18].
- medical history's union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[19].
- medical history's evaluation of is recorded as clinical interview[20].
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Definition and Type
Recorded subclass of include personally identifiable information[2], personal data[3], and event sequence[4].
Use and Application
Components include chief complaint[6], a specialized term[21]; history of the present illness[7]; past medical history[8]; family it[9]; social history[10]; and review of systems[11].
Why It Matters
medical history ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (706 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]