In this Opinion, we review the current reporting formats, discuss potential patient barriers to comprehension, and propose several options to reformat genetic and genomic lab reports to promote patient comprehension and engagement.
In this Opinion, we consider patient barriers to comprehension of lab results and suggest several options to reformat the lab report to promote understanding of test results and their significance to patient care, and to reduce patient anxiety and confusion.
We propose four options to reformat lab reports: 1) inclusion of an interpretive summary section, 2) a summary letter to accompany the lab report, 3) development of a patient user guide to be provided with the report, and 4) a completely revised patient-friendly report.
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We have proposed four options for consideration to reformat genetic and genomic lab reports to promote patient comprehension: inclusion of an interpretive summary, a summary letter, a patient user guide, or a patient-friendly version of the entire report.
There are new and bewildering ways to corrupt a machine's configuration to the point to where a reformat is probably a pretty appealing option".
Mammograms are typically rendered in grayscale but, as medical images are increasingly digital in format, the options for manipulating and reformatting those images become endless.
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Summary statistics of FASTA (and QUAL) or FASTQ files are generated in tabular and graphical form and sequences can be filtered, reformatted and trimmed by a variety of options to improve downstream analysis.
