Defining critical educational components of informed consent for genetic testing: views of US-based genetic counselors and medical geneticists.

ABSTRACT: The Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) Consent and Disclosure Recommendation (CADRe) framework proposes that key components of informed consent for genetic testing can be covered with a targeted discussion for many conditions rather than a time-intensive traditional genetic counseling approach. We surveyed US genetics professionals (medical geneticists and genetic counselors) on their response to scenarios that proposed core informed consent concepts for clinical genetic testing developed in a prior expert consensus process. The anonymous online survey included responses to 3 (of 6 possible) different clinical scenarios that summarized the application of the core concepts. There was a binary (yes/no) question asking respondents whether they agreed the scenarios included the minimum necessa

SUBMITTER: Hallquist MLG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10545703 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature