The Market in Noninvasive Prenatal Tests and the Message to Consumers: Exploring Responsibility
The potential for bias in industry-developed information about noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), in addition to the lack of regulatory oversight for this type of product, raises questions about clinical communication and adoption. We identify NIPTs marketed globally and analyze their English-lang...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 49-57 |
| Further subjects: | B
reproductive ethics
B doctor-patient relationship B Bioethics B conflict of interest B Responsibility B prenatal screening B noninvasive prenatal testing B medical marketing B Noninvasive prenatal testing |
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| Summary: | The potential for bias in industry-developed information about noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), in addition to the lack of regulatory oversight for this type of product, raises questions about clinical communication and adoption. We identify NIPTs marketed globally and analyze their English-language consumer-oriented brochures to determine whether they meet existing policy and ethical guidance from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on NIPT marketing, how they establish the legitimacy of the test given the lack of regulatory oversight for NIPT, and whether content differs between the brochures from for-profit and nonprofit entities. In many of these brochures, NIPTs are misrepresented as diagnostic tests, claims lack supporting evidence, regulatory bodies that do not evaluate the test itself are referenced, and clinicians are invoked as authorities on specific NIPTs. Our findings substantiate concerns about the extent to which commercial imperatives operating in the absence of market-access regulation could exacerbate problems of misrepresentation and inaccuracy in marketing materials. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-146X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.1329 |