Susan Broadbooks wrote: > I could use some help in choosing the best format for a > medical history report. > > My sister is heading to Mayo for help and needs a complete > family medical history spanning at least 3 generations. We > have a very large family. I need to create a report or chart > that is easy for her and her doctors to read that includes > the medical information in notes. I have made a separate > family file that includes just the individuals needed in the > report/chart, but I can't seem to find a format that works > cleanly and completely with notes. Any suggestions would be > greatly appreciated!
When my family needed something similar, I tried several approaches. First, I tried a simple, straight-forward, "Descendant narrative" type report which I edited to exclude the unnecessary and include the necessary. It only took me a couple hours to realize this was far too time-consuming to be useful. Then, I tried the Medical History Chart from the US Govt site; it too failed to satisfy. https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/fhh-web/home.action [if you google "family health history" .gov you get a number of hits for useful forms that aren't necessarily from a .gov site.] Finally, I simply did a GED of the relevant portions of my main data-base into a new database, changed the NAME to CoD (with Dx codes where available), color-coded for heart, lungs, circulation, other; deleted all notes, and printed a single-page pedigree chart and associated FGS. I could've stopped with the pedigree since that's all he read. :) FWIW Cheryl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
