Protocol for implementation of family health history collection and decision support into primary care using a computerized family health history system.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The CDC's Family History Public Health Initiative encourages adoption and increase awareness of family health history. To meet these goals and develop a personalized medicine implementation science research agenda, the Genomedical Connection is using an implementation research (T3 research) framework to develop and integrate a self-administered computerized family history system with built-in decision support into 2 primary care clinics in North Carolina.

Methods/design

The family health history system collects a three generation family history on 48 conditions and provides decision support (pedigree and tabular family history, provider recommendation report and patient summary report) for 4 pilot conditions: breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, and thromb

SUBMITTER: Orlando LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3200182 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature