A Note on Clinical Questionnaires

 

Questionnaires may help to provide clarification of a person’s medical, neurological, and emotional past history, especially if extensive (e.g., because of age) and complicated (e.g., because of multiple medical conditions). Under the right circumstances, they can be useful in the evaluation process. Questionnaires and charts may help to organize, may provide valuable information on past treatment efforts, and document the characteristic time course of certain symptoms. By nature, questionnaires are ancillary; they never replace a thorough patient-physician interview.