Example of health history taking questions
1. What seems to be wrong today?
2. What brings you to the hospital today?
3. How long have you had these symptoms?
4. Can you explain more about your symptoms?
5. Could you locate you pain?
6. What aggravates the pain?
7. What relieves the pain?
8. How long have you been feeling this way?
9. Have you been taking any medications or be seen by a doctor lately?
10. Have you ever been admitted in a hospital before?
11. Have you ever been under an operation? What kind of the operation and when?
12. Have you ever had an accident?
13. When was the last time that you were in the hospital? For what reason?
14. Is there any health problem recently?
15. Do you have any diseases?
16. Is there any of your family member suffers from diabetes, hypertension cancer or any sexual
transmitted diseases?
17. Do you smoke?, drink any type of alcohol? How much? And how often?
18. Are you married?
19. How many kids do you have?
Reading this given case study of Mr. S., then work in pairs in client’s history taking and complete the history taking form