Citizens can now order their own laboratory investigations. Self-testing is in line with increasing patient empowerment and in conflict with existing routines in medicine where all tests are ordered by the physician. Several challenges have to be faced by laboratory medicine to secure the quality and increase the medical benefits of patient-initiated diagnostics.
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