Widening the lens of actionability: A qualitative study of primary care providers' views and experiences of managing secondary genomic findings.

ABSTRACT: Most secondary genomic findings (SFs) fall in the scope of primary care practice. However, primary care providers' (PCPs) capacity to manage these findings is not well understood. We explored PCPs' views and experiences of managing SFs through a qualitative study. PCPs participated in semi-structured interviews about SFs from a patient in their practice or a hypothetical patient. The interpretive descriptive methodology was used to analyze transcripts thematically through constant comparison. Fifteen family physicians from Ontario, Canada participated (ten females; 6-40 years in practice across community and academic settings). PCPs made sense of SFs through the lens of actionability: they actively looked for clinical relevance by considering a wide range of immediate and future actions, i

SUBMITTER: Sebastian A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9091250 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature