Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Core Principles: Anticipation and Communication of Incidental and Secondary Findings


Written by Karen Meagher on January 14, 2014

In its recent report, Anticipate and Communicate: Ethical Management of Incidental and Secondary Findings in the Clinical, Research, and Direct-to-Consumer Contexts, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues’s (Bioethics Commission) ethical analysis relies on a core set of principles consistently outlined in its work. The four common principles—respect for persons, beneficence, justice and fairness, and intellectual freedom and responsibility—help provide ethical guidance for how to manage incidental and secondary findings while also being attentive to context, given the differences between clinical, research, and direct-to-consumer (DTC) relationships.

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