作者: Alex H. Cho , Lori A. Orlando
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-382227-7.00025-2
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摘要: Genomics has the potential to enhance healthcare provided in primary care through several mechanisms: tailoring prevention, raising provider awareness, increasing patient engagement, and selecting optimal therapy. This chapter outlines these benefits discusses existing barriers its integration clinical environment, which can be categorized into patient-level, provider-level, health-system-level factors. It concludes with a case study of type 2 diabetes genetic risk testing.