Health Status Evaluation Flashcards
HISTORY AND PHYSICAL
* Enables all practitioners to
* Aids in
* Helps in
have an organized format in which to IMPROVE
COMMUNICATION and gather important PATEINT INFORMATION
relating to dental and medical colleagues
altering and modifying treatment when applicable
INITIAL PATIENT CONTACT
(5)
- Treat the patient the way you would want to be treated
- Listen, don’t judge
- Be sincere, not mechanical
- Be truthful
- Speak in easily understood language
MEDICAL HISTORY DOCUMENTATION
* THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN MALPRACTICE LITIGATION:
- LACK OF DOCUMENTATION AND INADEQUATE NOTES
- Single most important source of information about this patient
MEDICAL HISTORY REVIEW
* Established initial doctor-patient relationship
Depth of inquiry tailored to each patient, based on:
(3)
- Age
- Medical condition
- Extent of planned surgery
MEDICAL HISTORY
* Conduct interview..
* Update history at
chairside in dental operatory
- Not in public place
- Ensure ease of flow of information when in privacy
EACH NEW patient encounter
SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION
- told to you by patient
COMPONENTS OF HEALTH HISTORY
- Chief complaint
- History of present illness
- Review of systems
- Past medical history
- Current medications
- Allergies (meds and environmental)
- Past surgical history
- Social history
Social history
(3)
- Alcohol
- Illicit drug use
- Tobacco (smoke and smokeless)
CHIEF COMPLAINT (CC)
(3)
- Reason why the patient is in your office
- Must be in patient’s own words
- Usually within quotations
HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS (HPI)
- Delve deeper into patient’s symptoms: pain/swelling/foul smell/drainage
- Location and Radiation
- Onset (when first started)
- Duration (acute vs chronic)
- Change in symptoms (feels better, feels worse, feels same)
- Severity (scale 1-10, “1 is me throwing marshmallow at you, 10 you are engulfed in flames”)
- Character of pain (sharp, dull, throbbing, electric shock)
- Exacerbating factors
- Alleviating factors
HPI
* Can be (2)
- Can be brief
- i.e. two day pain from erupting third molar
- Can be much more in depth
- i.e. non healing extraction site from outside office, with a patient that has a history of radiation
to mandible/maxilla
PAST MEDICAL HISTORY
* “What has your physician/doctor diagnosed you with?”
- Heart, lung, liver, kidney, abdomen, blood, brain, bones, skin
Questions tailored to quick view health history form answers
- Major illnesses and diseases
- When diagnosed, what treatment currently under
- Hospitalizations
- When, what for, follow up with PCP
- Operations
- What, when, any anesthetic complications
- H/O malignant hyperthermia (Important for IV sedation candidates)
REAL WORLD CORRELATION:
- PMH REQUIRING ANTIBIOTIC PREMEDICATION
- Previous h/o IE
- Prosthetic cardiac valve or prosthetic material used for cardiac valve repair
- Congenital heart disease (CHD):
- Cardiac transplant who develop cardiac valvulopathy
- Immunocompromised population
- Grafted shunts (dialysis shunts, hydrocephalus shunts)
- Total joint replacements (Continuing controversy)
- Congenital heart disease (CHD):
(3)
- Unrepaired cyanotic CHD, including palliative shunts and conduits
- Completely repaired CHD with prosthetic material or device, whether placed by surgery or by catheter intervention,
during FIRST SIX MONTHS after procedure - Repaired CHD with residual defects at the site or adjacent to the site of a prosthetic patch or prosthetic device
MEDICATIONS
(2)
- Review all medications patients are taking
- List dosing information (amount and frequency)
- Review all medications patients are taking
(4)
- Prescription meds from PCP
- Over the counter medications
- Medications patient received from friends/family
- Herbal supplements (!Drug-herbal interactions!)
- Bisphosphonate/RANKL-inhibitor medication
- Herbal meds:
Decrease drug affect (St. Johns Wort, garlic, fibers, laxatives)
Increase drug affect (Echinacea, ginger, cayenne, grapefruit juice, licorice, gingko (increase bleeding), kava, ginseng)
COMMON HEALTH CONDITIONS TO INQUIRE
ABOUT:
- Angina
- MI
- Heart murmurs (current or previous)
- Rheumatic fever
- Bleeding disorders
- Anticoagulant use
- Asthma
- Hepatitis
- Hypertension
- Kidney disease
- Diabetes
- Corticosteroid use (20 mg Prednisone equiv x 3 weeks)
- Seizure disorder
- Implanted prosthetic devices
- Pregnancy
- Breast feeding post-partum
- Lung diseases (TB, CA, OSA, COPD)
- Osteoporosis
ALLERGIES
(2)
- List any allergy with associated reaction
- If patient has none, document No Known Drug Allergies (NKDA)
ALLERGIES
ex (4)
- Penicillin: rash, hives
- Codeine: nausea/vomiting
- Epinephrine: fast heart rate/anxiety
- Latex: shortness of breath
not true allergies (2)
- Codeine: nausea/vomiting
- Epinephrine: fast heart rate/anxiety
SOCIAL HISTORY
- Behavior that can be detrimental to long term health and wound healing
Tobacco
(2)
- Smoking or smokeless
- Measured in pack years (packs per day x years smoked) as well as when first started
Alcohol
(2)
- What kind, how much (one cup to me is 8 oz, could be 72 oz for others)
- Alcohol Use Disorder Low Risk: MEN: ≤ 4 units per day for men or ≤ 14 units in one week
WOMEN: ≤ 3 units per day for women or ≤ 7 units in one week