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OPQRST is a mnemonic initialism used by medical professionals to accurately discern reasons for a patient's symptoms and history in the event of an acute illness. [1 ...
SAMPLE history is a mnemonic acronym to remember key questions for a person's medical assessment. [1] The SAMPLE history is sometimes used in conjunction with vital ...
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
Different sources include different questions to be asked while conducting an HPI. Several acronyms have been developed to categorize the appropriate questions to include.
SOCRATES [1] [2]; Letter Aspect Example Questions S Site Where is the pain? Or the maximal site of the pain. O Onset When did the pain start, and was it sudden or gradual?
The chief complaint, formally known as CC in the medical field, or termed presenting complaint (PC) in Europe and Canada, forms the second step of medical history taking. It is sometimes also referred to as reason for encounter (RFE), presenting problem, problem on admission or reason for presenting.
O. P. Q. Letters of 1834, a pair of letters published anonymously by Anthony Butler to try to incite a rebellion against Mexico in Texas; OPQ v BJM (2011), a court case under judge David Eady; see List of privacy injunction cases in English law
This is a list of human anatomy mnemonics, categorized and alphabetized.For mnemonics in other medical specialties, see this list of medical mnemonics.Mnemonics serve as a systematic method for remembrance of functionally or systemically related items within regions of larger fields of study, such as those found in the study of specific areas of human anatomy, such as the bones in the hand ...