Acceptable Thresholds Committee

The volunteer ELEVATEGENETICS Acceptable Thresholds Committee establishes thresholds for grading the accuracy of clinical genetic and genomic tests. This committee helps fulfill an essential need because many clinical laboratories are running clinical tests that are unverified by any third party, and are too-frequently inaccurate, even when the laboratories are CLIA certified or CAP accredited. Unfortunately, most clinicians, patients, health insurers, and sometimes even the labs themselves are unaware of systematic laboratory failures that too-often lead to inaccurate test results, which can ultimately result in physical as well as financial harm to patients. While different regulatory bodies within the United States focus on different aspects of clinical testing with varying rigor, the nonprofit Center for Genomic Interpretation is the only organization providing test users and payers with a rigorous, unbiased, and systematic way to cross compare the accuracy of competing clinical genetic and genomic tests. The ELEVATEGENETICS Acceptable Thresholds Committee defines the clinically relevant testing “challenges” that participating laboratories will be evaluated against in ELEVATEGENETICS BRILLIANT assessments. The committee also sets the thresholds for accuracy scores by which different types of tests are awarded: Elite, Satisfactory, or Participating grades.

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