Holtzman N A
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Fetal Diagn Ther. 1993 Apr;8 Suppl 1:213-9. doi: 10.1159/000263890.
Due in part to shortages of health care professionals with expertise in genetics, primary care physicians will assume a greater role in providing frontline genetic services as genetic tests for more diseases become available. I report some preliminary findings from a national survey of primary care physicians, psychiatrists, medical geneticists and genetic counselors. As expected, no group of nongenetics specialists had as much knowledge as geneticists. Nongeneticist physicians with the greatest exposure to patients with genetic problems had more knowledge than physicians without such exposure. Non-geneticist physicians were more likely to be directive in counseling than geneticists. Problems for future research are enumerated.
部分由于缺乏具有遗传学专业知识的医疗保健专业人员，随着针对更多疾病的基因检测问世，初级保健医生将在提供一线基因服务方面发挥更大作用。我报告了一项针对初级保健医生、精神科医生、医学遗传学家和遗传咨询师的全国性调查的一些初步结果。不出所料，没有一组非遗传学专家拥有与遗传学家一样多的知识。接触遗传问题患者最多的非遗传学家医生比没有此类接触的医生拥有更多知识。非遗传学家医生在咨询中比遗传学家更倾向于给出指导意见。文中列举了未来研究的问题。
