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Our work on the wording of genetic reports for cystic fibrosis carrier testing is published

Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication

News - Our work on the wording of genetic reports for cystic fibrosis carrier testing is published

Detail of genetic report

Genetic and genomic testing is becoming more routine within the UK's National Health Service and in health systems around the world. Most clinicians and patients, however, don't know much about genetics and the technical terminology of the specialism is very difficult to understand.

We have been working on designing new report templates that help prioritise the information coming back from a genetic test, and on the wording that could help patients and clinicians understand the result and its implications. The latter work - on the wording - has just been published in the journal Genetics in Medicine.

As with all Winton Centre work, this is Open Access, and available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41436-019-0649-0.pdf.