title: Obtaining a "reasonably accurate" health history.
abstract: Information obtained in a health history is used to assess the patient's current health status, evaluate the disease process, and plan the patient's medical and surgical nursing care plan. The health history process reviewed in this article entails understanding levels of health history, methods of obtaining a health history, and challenging health histories. Three levels of health history are reviewed: comprehensive, detail-limited, and challenging. A data collection guide to improve accuracy of health histories is included.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Morrissey
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015203:Reproducibility of Results