Personalized medicine is a broad and rapidly advancing field of health care that is informed
by each person's unique clinical, genetic, genomic, and environmental information …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to review the role of the family history in predictive
genetic testing, describe how family history taking is practiced in adult primary care, identify …

Context The greatest public health benefit of advances in understanding the human genome
may be realized for common chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes …

Background Available evidence suggests that improvements in genetics education are
needed to prepare primary care providers for the impact of ongoing rapid advances in …

Purpose: Physicians will play a large role in the delivery of genomic medicine, given the
limited number of trained genetics professionals. The objective of this study was to assess …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To increase primary care providers' awareness and use of genetic
services; increase their knowledge of genetic issues; increase their confidence in core …

Background Rare diseases are a priority objective for public health systems. Given its
complexity, late and misdiagnoses occur very often which causes mental and physical …

To effectively translate genetic advances into practice, engagement of primary care
providers (PCPs) is essential. Using a qualitative, phenomenological methodology, we …

In an era of growing knowledge about genetics and health, primary-care physicians will
have increasing responsibility for evaluating genetic risk and using genetic tests. Although …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Genomic risk profiling involves the analysis of genetic
variations linked through statistical associations to a range of disease states. There is …