Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework

This paper provides an overview of the regulation of quality assurance for genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand and outlines the steps currently being taken to critically appraise and improve the regulatory framework in each country. It aims to contextualize this framework within the broader...

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Autores principales: Goold, Imogen L, Pearn, Amy, Bettiol, Silvana, Ballantyne, Angela
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1657012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17092338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-3-13
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author Goold, Imogen L
Pearn, Amy
Bettiol, Silvana
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description This paper provides an overview of the regulation of quality assurance for genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand and outlines the steps currently being taken to critically appraise and improve the regulatory framework in each country. It aims to contextualize this framework within the broader context of quality and patient safety concerns; and to draw together the concerns and recommendations of the various organizations that have been working to improve quality assurance in this area.
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spelling pubmed-16570122006-11-22 Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework Goold, Imogen L Pearn, Amy Bettiol, Silvana Ballantyne, Angela Aust New Zealand Health Policy Review This paper provides an overview of the regulation of quality assurance for genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand and outlines the steps currently being taken to critically appraise and improve the regulatory framework in each country. It aims to contextualize this framework within the broader context of quality and patient safety concerns; and to draw together the concerns and recommendations of the various organizations that have been working to improve quality assurance in this area. BioMed Central 2006-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC1657012/ /pubmed/17092338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-3-13 Text en Copyright © 2006 Goold et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bettiol, Silvana
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Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework
title Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework
title_full Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework
title_fullStr Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework
title_full_unstemmed Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework
title_short Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework
title_sort quality and safety of genetic testing in australia and new zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1657012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17092338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-3-13
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