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  • Title: Clinical implications of the ethics of informed consent for first-trimester risk assessment for trisomy 21.
    Author: Chervenak FA, McCullough LB, Chasen ST.
    Journal: Semin Perinatol; 2005 Aug; 29(4):277-9. PubMed ID: 16104682.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: We identify the clinical implications of the ethics of informed consent for risk assessment for trisomy 21. FINDING: Based on the ethics of informed consent, we find that routinely offering first-trimester risk assessment in centers qualified to provide it is ethically obligatory, and routinely withholding the results of first-trimester risk assessment is ethically unjustified. CONCLUSION: The ethics of informed consent is an essential dimension of first-trimester risk assessment for trisomy 21.
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