Beschreibung
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword.- 1 Improving quality and harmonization of standards in clinical genetic services in Europe: The EuroGentest Network of Excellence.- 2 The CanGeneTest pan-Canadian Research Consortium on Genetic Laboratory Services.- 3 Regulating Genetic Testing: the relevance of appropriate definitions.- 4 Genetic diseases as rare diseases: a European policy view.- 5 European Regulatory Issues Related to Quality in Provision of Genetic Service.- 6 The European IVD Directive and Genetic Testing.- 7 Quality issues in genetics services in the United Kingdom.- 8 The Primary Care Perspective of Quality in Clinical Genetics Service- UK.- 9 Regulation of Genetic Testing / Service in Canada.- 10 Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services in Australia.- 11 Clinical genetic testing and services - the US perspective.- 12 U.S. Oversight and Regulation of Genetic Testing.- 13 Regulatory Issues in Clinical and Laboratory Genetics in Developing Countries. Examples from Latin America.- 14 Assuring quality when establishing medical genetic services in middle- and low-income nations.- 15 Clinical validity and utility of genetic testing in heritable disorders.- 16 Clinical validity and utility of genetic testing in common multifactorial diseases.- 17 The quality of genetic screening: an integral approach.- 18 The use of principles in allocating scarce health care resources for genetic tests.- 19 Outcome measures in clinical genetics services.- 20 Direct to consumer testing.- 21 Competency based core curriculum for training specialists in clinical genetics.- 22 Ensuring education and quality in the practice of health professionals (non-medical) working in genetic services.- 23 Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services: Ethical aspects.- 24 Democratic expert influence through bioethical advisory committees? The case of PGD legislation in Sweden.- 25 Quality issues in clinical genetic services; Regulatory issues and International Conventions.- 26 IPR issues and high quality genetic testing.- 27 Quality Issues in the Evaluation and Regulation of Genetic Testing Services: A Public Health Approach.- 28 Quality Management Systems and Accreditation.- 29 External Quality Assessment in Molecular Genetic Testing.- 30 Quality issues in molecular genetic testing.- 31 Quality in Cytogenetics.- 32 Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) - quality issues in molecular cytogenetics.- 33 Quality issues in Biochemical Genetic Testing.- 34 Emerging technologies, need for quality assessment.- 35 Genetic counselling in rare diseases.- 36 Genetic Counselling for Late-onset Disorders.- 37 Genetic counselling for common diseases, cancer susceptibility as paradigm.- 38 Genetic counselling in disorders of low penetrance.- 39 Patient Perspectives on Genetic Testing.- Index.