Glossary

Clinically actionable data

Data is clinically actionable when it has medical or personal decision-making utility, particularly when it indicates the need for further diagnostic or preventive measures or when an alternative treatment is available.
Examples of actionable, non-urgent results are:

  • a Hemoglobin AIC (or HbA1c) blood test, a measure of average blood sugar, is above normal, and may indicate diabetes or pre-diabetes.
  • genetic screening of an individual who has been personally unaffected by cancer returns the presence of BRCA1, a breast cancer susceptibility gene.

Multi-Regional Clinical Trials-MRCT Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard. Return of Individual Research Results

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