Direct-to-Consumer Testing: Benefits and Concerns of Commercially Accessed Laboratory Tests
DTCT might be advantageous over traditional testing settings in a few selected situations but has a substantial risk of medicalization of healthy persons and damaging the trust in the reliability of healthcare laboratory testing.
Authors
- Sverre Sandberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9521-5087)
- Matthias Orth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2881-8384)
- Patti Shih (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9628-7987)
Institutions
- University of Wollongong (AU)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim
- University of Bergen (NO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Chemistry
- Published
- 2025-01-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/hvaf004
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82