An Innovative Strategy for Collecting Family Health History: An Effectiveness-Implementation Trial in Primary Care Clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We aimed to evaluate an innovative strategy to collect family history (FH) and explore patients' views of this strategy.

Methods

We conducted a matched-pair effectiveness-implementation trial in family practices affiliated with the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UTOPIAN). The intervention group included family physicians (FPs) from randomly selected practices using electronic health records (EHRs) and an e-mailing platform, and randomly selected patients aged 30-69 years (4/FP/week) seen in clinic over a 6-month period. The matched control group included FPs (1:1) and patients (up to 5:1) from the UTOPIAN database. The intervention included patient and FP education, an e-mailed patient invitation to complete an FH questionnaire, automatic FH E

SUBMITTER: Carroll JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12459678 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature