Anticipated responses of early adopter genetic specialists and nongenetic specialists to unsolicited genomic secondary findings.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Secondary findings from genomic sequencing are becoming more common. We compared how health-care providers with and without specialized genetics training anticipated responding to different types of secondary findings.

Methods

Providers with genomic sequencing experience reviewed five secondary-findings reports and reported attitudes and potential clinical follow-up. Analyses compared genetic specialists and physicians without specialized genetics training, and examined how responses varied by secondary finding.

Results

Genetic specialists scored higher than other providers on four-point scales assessing understandings of reports (3.89 vs. 3.42, p = 0.0002), and lower on scales assessing reporting obligations (2.60 vs. 3.51, p < 0.0001) and burdens of respondi

SUBMITTER: Christensen KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6103906 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature