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Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’)
The role of clinical pathologists or laboratory-based physicians is being challenged on several fronts—exponential advances in technology, increasing patient autonomy exercised in the right to directly request tests and the use of non-medical specialists as substitutes. In response, clinical patholo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580792/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29273576 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2017-204734 |
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author | Orth, Matthias Averina, Maria Chatzipanagiotou, Stylianos Faure, Gilbert Haushofer, Alexander Kusec, Vesna Machado, Augusto Misbah, Siraj A Oosterhuis, Wytze Pulkki, Kari Twomey, Patrick J Wieland, Eberhard |
author_facet | Orth, Matthias Averina, Maria Chatzipanagiotou, Stylianos Faure, Gilbert Haushofer, Alexander Kusec, Vesna Machado, Augusto Misbah, Siraj A Oosterhuis, Wytze Pulkki, Kari Twomey, Patrick J Wieland, Eberhard |
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description | The role of clinical pathologists or laboratory-based physicians is being challenged on several fronts—exponential advances in technology, increasing patient autonomy exercised in the right to directly request tests and the use of non-medical specialists as substitutes. In response, clinical pathologists have focused their energies on the pre-analytical and postanalytical phases of Laboratory Medicine thus emphasising their essential role in individualised medical interpretation of complex laboratory results. Across the European Union, the role of medical doctors is enshrined in the Medical Act. This paper highlights the relevance of this act to patient welfare and the need to strengthen training programmes to prevent an erosion in the quality of Laboratory Medicine provided to patients and their physicians. |
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spelling | pubmed-65807922019-07-02 Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’) Orth, Matthias Averina, Maria Chatzipanagiotou, Stylianos Faure, Gilbert Haushofer, Alexander Kusec, Vesna Machado, Augusto Misbah, Siraj A Oosterhuis, Wytze Pulkki, Kari Twomey, Patrick J Wieland, Eberhard J Clin Pathol Thematic Management The role of clinical pathologists or laboratory-based physicians is being challenged on several fronts—exponential advances in technology, increasing patient autonomy exercised in the right to directly request tests and the use of non-medical specialists as substitutes. In response, clinical pathologists have focused their energies on the pre-analytical and postanalytical phases of Laboratory Medicine thus emphasising their essential role in individualised medical interpretation of complex laboratory results. Across the European Union, the role of medical doctors is enshrined in the Medical Act. This paper highlights the relevance of this act to patient welfare and the need to strengthen training programmes to prevent an erosion in the quality of Laboratory Medicine provided to patients and their physicians. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-03 2017-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6580792/ /pubmed/29273576 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2017-204734 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2019. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Thematic Management Orth, Matthias Averina, Maria Chatzipanagiotou, Stylianos Faure, Gilbert Haushofer, Alexander Kusec, Vesna Machado, Augusto Misbah, Siraj A Oosterhuis, Wytze Pulkki, Kari Twomey, Patrick J Wieland, Eberhard Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’) |
title | Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’) |
title_full | Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’) |
title_fullStr | Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’) |
title_full_unstemmed | Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’) |
title_short | Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’) |
title_sort | opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4p medicine’) |
topic | Thematic Management |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580792/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29273576 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2017-204734 |
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