Family health history reporting is sensitive to small changes in wording.
Liam S Conway-PearsonKurt D ChristensenSarah K SavageNoelle L HuntingtonElissa R WeitzmanSonja I ZinielPhoebe B MitchellCara N CacioppoRobert C GreenIngrid A HolmPublished in: Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics (2016)
Small alterations to the way family health history queries are worded can substantially change patient responses. Clinicians and researchers need to be sensitive about patients' tendencies to omit extended family from health history reporting unless specifically asked to consider them.Genet Med 18 12, 1308-1311.