A self-administered history questionnaire for cosmetic facial surgery candidates.
The collection of information concerning a patient's history is every bit as important in the evaluation of candidates for cosmetic surgery as it is in any other branch of medicine. Consequently, a self-administered questionnaire was developed to save time and to ensure thoroughness. The questionnaire helps elicit a patient's motivations and expectations, and also satisfies some of the requirements of the legal doctrine of informed consent. A particularly noteworthy feature of the form is the "Personal Inventory" section, which attempts to "red flag" patterns of psychogenic conditions in prospective patients.
D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires