@article{ref1,
title="Health hazard appraisal in patient counseling",
journal="Western journal of medicine",
year="1975",
author="LaDou, J. and Sherwood, J. N. and Hughes, L.",
volume="122",
number="2",
pages="177-180",
abstract="A program of annual health examinations was expanded to include counseling based on a computerized appraisal of individual patients' specific health hazard factors. Data obtained from a specially designed questionnaire, laboratory tests and a physical examination yielded a printout showing a number of weighted risk factors and their relation to ten leading causes of death as determined for that patient. From all of this information, a risk (&quot;apparent&quot;) age was developed for the patient. The results were reviewed with each patient, and methods of correcting health hazards were stressed. A total of 488 persons were appraised, and 107 were randomly reappraised in less than a year, with the finding that the net risk age was reduced by 1.4 years. Such a reduction in risk age is significant; it indicates that appraisal-based counseling is an effective method of altering priorities of health practices.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-0415",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}