At last week's ACMG Annual Clinical Meeting, I presented a poster titled "The Ethics of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing." It turns out that the logic of my argument could very well be reflected in practice guidelines that are soon-to-be-released. I doubt the force of my abstract submitted last winter is to account for the change. But, it is a bit ironic that because NIPT will cause a test with risk to potentially have greater risk, NIPT has justified itself being inserted as a step before the test Continue Reading
Mark Leach March 28, 2013
The nonmaleficent role of NIPT
Filed Under: NIPT, The Informed Consent Process Tagged With: ACMG, Down syndrome, ethics, NIPT, nonmaleficence, prenatal testing
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