Use of telephone intake for family history taking at a cancer genetics service in Asia

• Main Authors: Chin, Xin Wei, Ang, Zoe L. T., Tan, Ryan Y. C., Courtney, Eliza, Shaw, Tarryn, Chen, Yanni, Li, Shao-Tzu, Ngeow, Joanne
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Family History; Genetic Counseling
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161034
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Family history taking is a fundamental part of genetic counseling, and however, it is also a time-consuming process. To cope with the increasing demands at the Cancer Genetics Service in Singapore, alternative methods to collect patients' family history were implemented to reduce the duration o...