Appropriateness: A Key to Enabling the Use of Genomics in Clinical Practice?

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; VA Boston Healthcare System, Mass. Electronic address: jvassy@partners.org.
² Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
³ Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.

Editorial

Jason L Vassy et al. Am J Med. 2016 Jun.

. 2016 Jun;129(6):551-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.02.010. Epub 2016 Mar 8.

¹ Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; VA Boston Healthcare System, Mass. Electronic address: jvassy@partners.org.
² Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
³ Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare. All authors had access to the data and a role in writing the manuscript.

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