Time tracking and comparison of genetic counseling tasks in inpatient and outpatient settings.
Genetic counselors (GCs) practice in critical care settings. Some GCs have full‐time inpatient roles, while most GCs who see inpatients do so as needed or on a rotating schedule in addition to seeing patients in an outpatient setting. Few studies have tracked and compared the amount of time it takes...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Genetic Counseling Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 1 - 13 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2025
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