ReviewEJIFCC2021
Direct to Consumer Laboratory Testing (DTCT) - Opportunities and Concerns.
Review in EJIFCC, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Genetic Polymorphisms ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Direct-to-Consumer Testing: Relevance for Diabetes Therapy.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2025Article
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- Social Media Promotion of Health Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis or Overuse: Protocol for a Content Analysis.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Websites Selling Direct-to-Consumer Anti-Mullerian Hormone Tests.JAMA network open · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Direct to consumer laboratory testing has the potential for self-empowerment of patients. However, the Direct to consumer laboratory testing (DTCT) uses loopholes which are related to the particular situation of healthcare: While advertisements and claims for medical usefulness are very high regulated in healthcare, essentially no regulations safeguard the consumers in DTCT. The same is true for the quality of testing services since quality regulations are only mandatory in healthcare. Another problem is the lack of medical interpretation of test results. Besides being very risky for the consumers, healthcare professionals relying on test results obtained by DTCT must be aware about the risks of these data.
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Identifiers
34421490PMC8343044What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.