Patient reactions to receiving negative genomic screening results by mail.

Kelsey StuttgenJoel PacynaAnnika BeckIftikhar J KulloRichard R Sharp

Published in: Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics (2020)

These data suggest most patients value receiving negative genomic screening results and are comfortable receiving their results by mail. Nevertheless, a significant proportion of patients also reported difficulty understanding some aspects of their results. This finding challenges the idea that communicating genomic screening results by mail alone is sufficient to meet patients' needs.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
peritoneal dialysis
gene expression
copy number
machine learning
dna methylation
patient reported outcomes
artificial intelligence
electronic health record
genome wide