Moving from ‘fully’ to ‘appropriately’ informed consent in genomics: The PROMICE framework

Genomic sequencing technologies (GS) pose novel challenges not seen in older genetic technologies, making traditional standards for fully informed consent difficult or impossible to meet. This is due to factors including the complexity of the test and the broad range of results it may identify. Mean...

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Autores principales: Koplin, Julian J. (Autor) ; Gyngell, Christopher (Autor) ; Savulescu, Julian (Autor) ; Vears, Danya F. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
En: Bioethics
Año: 2022, Volumen: 36, Número: 6, Páginas: 655-665
Clasificaciones IxTheo:NCJ Ética de la ciencia
Otras palabras clave:B rapid genomic testing
B Informed Consent
B Genomics
B Autonomy
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Sumario:Genomic sequencing technologies (GS) pose novel challenges not seen in older genetic technologies, making traditional standards for fully informed consent difficult or impossible to meet. This is due to factors including the complexity of the test and the broad range of results it may identify. Meaningful informed consent is even more challenging to secure in contexts involving significant time constraints and emotional distress, such as when rapid genomic testing (RGS) is performed in neonatal intensive care units. In this article, we propose that informed consent matters not for its own sake, but because obtaining it furthers a range of morally important goals, such as promoting autonomy, well-being, and trust in medicine. These goals form the basis of a new framework [PROmoting Morally Important Consent Ends (PROMICE)] for assessing the ethical appropriateness of various informed consent models. We illustrate this framework with two examples: (a) a tiered and layered consent model for obtaining consent for GS, and (b) consent for RGS in critically ill newborns. We conclude that appropriately—rather than fully—informed consent provides the correct standard for genomic medicine and research.
ISSN:1467-8519
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13027