The Need for Education and Clinical Best Practice Guidelines in the Era of Direct-to-Consumer Genomic Testing

Many people share the results of their direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing (DTC-PGT) within the primary care setting, seeking interpretation of and counsel about the results. However, most primary care physicians (PCPs) are not trained to interpret and communicate about DTC-PGT results. New...

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Autores principales: Myers, Madeleine, Bloss, Cinnamon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7755527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33289492
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21787
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description Many people share the results of their direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing (DTC-PGT) within the primary care setting, seeking interpretation of and counsel about the results. However, most primary care physicians (PCPs) are not trained to interpret and communicate about DTC-PGT results. New guidelines must be developed to help PCPs maximize the potential of emerging DTC-PGT technologies.
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spelling pubmed-77555272020-12-31 The Need for Education and Clinical Best Practice Guidelines in the Era of Direct-to-Consumer Genomic Testing Myers, Madeleine Bloss, Cinnamon JMIR Med Educ Viewpoint Many people share the results of their direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing (DTC-PGT) within the primary care setting, seeking interpretation of and counsel about the results. However, most primary care physicians (PCPs) are not trained to interpret and communicate about DTC-PGT results. New guidelines must be developed to help PCPs maximize the potential of emerging DTC-PGT technologies. JMIR Publications 2020-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7755527/ /pubmed/33289492 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21787 Text en ©Madeleine Myers, Cinnamon Bloss. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org), 08.12.2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Education, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mededu.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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