Adoption by Patients and Health Care Professionals
“Precision Medicine leverages the most innovative technology advances in the field of genetics. The concept is “en vouge”! We know that the science will give us increasingly better treatment options. I have covered this in my previous blog post. But does it really matter? Precision medicine only will become a reality if both patients and the health care professionals treating them will act on the information at hand.”
“So, where do we stand currently on this issue?”
“In this context, a recent study published in the European Journal of Human Genetics, provides some helpful insights into this subject matter from researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The study interviewed nearly 7,000 people including members from the general public, genomic researchers as well as genetic and non-genetic health professionals from more than 75 countries around the world about their preferences on receiving genomic information.”
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