How genomic information is accessed in clinical practice: an electronic survey of UK general practitioners.

ABSTRACT: Genomic technologies are having an increasing impact across medicine, including primary care. To enable their wider adoption and realize their potential, education of primary health-care practitioners will be required. To enable the development of such resources, understanding where GPs currently access genomic information is needed. One-hundred fifty-nine UK GPs completed the survey in response to an open invitation, between September 2017 and September 2018. Questions were in response to 4 clinical genomic scenarios, with further questions exploring resources used for rare disease patients, direct-to-consumer genetic testing and collecting a family history. Respondents were most commonly GP principals (independent GPs who own their clinic) (64.8%), aged 35-49 years (54%), worked as a GP

SUBMITTER: Evans WRH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7295869 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature