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A multidisciplinary renal genetics clinic improves patient diagnosis
Author(s) -
Mallett Andrew,
Fowles Lindsay F,
McGaughran Julie,
Healy Helen,
Patel Chirag
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja15.01157
Subject(s) - medicine , university hospital , family medicine , management , library science , computer science , economics
Changes in clinical diagnosis at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Renal Genetics Clinic (green, unchanged diagnosis; blue, changed diagnosis) Din advance of their translational clinical application. Multidisciplinary clinics are proposed to overcome this in many medicalfields. This is especially so in nephrology, which is typified by significant community disease burden and heritability. Several renal genetics clinics (RGCs) operate overseas, although their models and outcomes are largely unreported. The first multidisciplinary RGC in Australasia commenced at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in August 2013, involving a clinical geneticist, nephrologist, genetic counsellor, and ancillary clinical and diagnostic services. The departments of clinical genetics and nephrology jointly operate the RGC. The clinical geneticist and nephrologist see families in the same appointment, maximising use of time. In this article, we report this clinical service’s initial outcomes and model for mainstreaming genetic medicine.