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Tue 31 Mar, 2015 11:45 pm
Does "orders" here mean "carries out (the genetic tests)"?
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The uncertainty surrounding an ambiguous test result can lead to unnecessary surgery. Last year, researchers led by Ellen Matloff, founder of the cancer genetic-counselling programme at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and chief executive of genetic test information service My Gene Counsel, reported four cases in which women had had their breasts or ovaries removed after finding that they carried BRCA1 or BRCA2 variants that had not been definitively linked to increased disease risk2. Those cases show that people should be sure that whoever orders and interprets their genetic tests is qualified to do so, says Matloff.
@oristarA,
In general, the term "orders" used in a medical/clinical situation could refer to a request by a physician to have a genetic test performed for a patient by a clinical ( usually hospital-based) lab.
@Miller,
Miller wrote:
In general, the term "orders" used in a medical/clinical situation could refer to a request by a physician to have a genetic test performed for a patient by a clinical ( usually hospital-based) lab.
So here "orders" refers to "commands"?
The doctor commands the patient to take a genetic test.
No. It could mean that the Dr. writes a prescription for the test.
Physicians "order" tests.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Miller wrote:
In general, the term "orders" used in a medical/clinical situation could refer to a request by a physician to have a genetic test performed for a patient by a clinical ( usually hospital-based) lab.
So here "orders" refers to "commands"?
The doctor commands the patient to take a genetic test.
No! This is usually a written request to the clinical lab to perform the test on a specimen provided by the patient.
For example, a Doctor may write an ORDER for a patient to have a urine test performed. The Doctor is requesting the patient to submit a sample of urine to the clinical lab for analysis. The Doctor writes an ORDER ( via hand or computer) to the lab to perform the analysis of the urine.
The Doctor requests the patient in person ( verbal request) or by mail.
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