Children (Mar 2023)

Challenges in Communicating a Genetic Diagnosis

  • Francisco Cammarata-Scalisi,
  • Colin Eric Willoughby,
  • Vito Romano,
  • Michele Callea

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/children10040672
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
p. 672

Abstract

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Communicating the diagnosis of a genetic entity/rare disease to a patient or their parents is a complex process; it requires the doctor, pediatrician, or geneticist to display good communication skills and knowledge in a moment of uncertainty and disorientation for the family group, and sometimes in an inappropriate environment or under time constraints [...]

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