Skip to main content

The Follow Through on Medical Actions Attributable to Genomic Testing Survey, developed by the Clinical Utility, Health Economics, and Policy (CUHEP) working group, measures whether parents of pediatric patients took actions (such as sharing the results with healthcare providers) after receiving positive or negative findings on their child's genetic test.

The Patient-Initiated Actions Attributable to Genomic Testing Survey, developed by the Clinical Utility, Health Economics, and Policy (CUHEP) working group, asks adult patients to report whether they took any actions following the return of genetic test results, including making changes to their own or their child's health care, lifestyle, or insurance.

Goisef and colleagues developed a survey for professionals working in research-based biobanks in Europe that assess their satisfaction with current ELSI-related procedures. Topics assessed include: collaboration and data sharing with industrial partners, secondary uses of participant data, and recontacting participants. There are 25 questions in this survey.

Christensen and colleagues developed a survey to enable parents of pediatric patients to set preferences for return of individual results from research on pediatric biobank samples based on disease preventability and severity.The survey also enables participants to exclude mental health, developmental, childhood degenerative, and adult-onset disorders. During the course of this study, participants also reviewed a hypothetical results report with conditions divided into categories based on preventability and severity and were offered the opportunity to revise their preferences.

Several study sites in the third phase of the electronic MEdical Records and GEnomics (eMERGE) Network implemented protocols to enable research participants to choose the type of secondary results they wished to be returned from a multigene sequencing panel. Site-specific protocols in the Supplementary Materials range from brief screeners to decision aids.