%0 Journal Article
%T Health hazard appraisal in patient counseling
%J Western journal of medicine
%D 1975
%A LaDou, J.
%A Sherwood, J. N.
%A Hughes, L.
%V 122
%N 2
%P 177-180
%X 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 ("apparent") 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>
%G en
%I BMJ Publishing Group
%@ 0093-0415
%U http://dx.doi.org/