The Psychosocial Profile: A History-Taking Aid

Former Member 4/24/1511:32 AM

Can Fam Physician. 1985 Apr; 31: 864–868.

1. The psychosocial history helps to distinguish functional primary care complaints from organic ones.

2. As many as 1/2 - 3/4 of patient visits to primary care clinics have psychosocial causes prompting the visit as opposed to biomedical problems.

I learned about the importance of the psychosocial history extensively in my medical training and I believe it is time to get back to basics. The ACE questions are simply components of the tried and true psychosocial history I was taught in medical school....... Thanks Tina.

To see this older but important article by C. H. Horricks please see this link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...s/PMC2327533/?page=1

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