This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Nicole V. Tolan and Robert Nerenz, will cover Direct to Consumer Testing: The Role of Laboratory Medicine. This issue is one of four selected each year by our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Milenko Jovan Tanasijevic. Topics discussed in this issue will include: Health Literacy, Identifying Valuable Tests, Challenges with At-Home and Mail-In Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing, Self-Ordering and Interpretations, American Association for Clinical Chemistry Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Position Statement, Data Disjunction, Integration of At-Home Testing, Wearable Devices, Oncogene Panels and Risk Calculations, Ethics, and Pharmacy’s Integration and Testing Offered, among others.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. Contributors - p. iii 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. viii 7. Preface - p. ix 8. Health Literacy and the Desire to Manage One's Own Health - p. 1 9. Direct-to-Consumer Tests on the Market Today: Identifying Valuable Tests from Those with Limited Utility - p. 13 10. Challenges with At-home and Mail-in Direct-to-Consumer Testing: Preanalytical Error, Reporting Results, and Result Interpretation - p. 25 11. Self-Ordering Laboratory Testing: Limitations When a Physician Is not Part of the Model - p. 37 12. Big Data Everywhere: The Impact of Data Disjunction in the Direct-to-Consumer Testing Model - p. 51 13. The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing on Patient and Provider - p. 61 14. Wave of Wearables: Clinical Management of Patients and the Future of Connected Medicine - p. 69 15. Lessons Learned from Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing - p. 83 16. The Ethics of Direct-to-Consumer Testing - p. 93 17. An Overview of Direct-to-Consumer Testing - p. 105
This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Nicole V. Tolan and Robert Nerenz, will cover Direct to Consumer Testing: The Role of Laboratory Medicine. This issue is one of four selected each year by our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Milenko Jovan Tanasijevic. Topics discussed in this issue will include: Health Literacy, Identifying Valuable Tests, Challenges with At-Home and Mail-In Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing, Self-Ordering and Interpretations, American Association for Clinical Chemistry Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Position Statement, Data Disjunction, Integration of At-Home Testing, Wearable Devices, Oncogene Panels and Risk Calculations, Ethics, and Pharmacy’s Integration and Testing Offered, among others.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. Contributors - p. iii 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. viii 7. Preface - p. ix 8. Health Literacy and the Desire to Manage One's Own Health - p. 1 9. Direct-to-Consumer Tests on the Market Today: Identifying Valuable Tests from Those with Limited Utility - p. 13 10. Challenges with At-home and Mail-in Direct-to-Consumer Testing: Preanalytical Error, Reporting Results, and Result Interpretation - p. 25 11. Self-Ordering Laboratory Testing: Limitations When a Physician Is not Part of the Model - p. 37 12. Big Data Everywhere: The Impact of Data Disjunction in the Direct-to-Consumer Testing Model - p. 51 13. The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing on Patient and Provider - p. 61 14. Wave of Wearables: Clinical Management of Patients and the Future of Connected Medicine - p. 69 15. Lessons Learned from Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing - p. 83 16. The Ethics of Direct-to-Consumer Testing - p. 93 17. An Overview of Direct-to-Consumer Testing - p. 105
