Chunk #78 — PART II. CORE QUESTIONS — F. What is the Content of those Responsibilities? Four Issues and Who Should Address Them — Step 1: Clarifying the criteria and roster
The greater difficulty and cost of biobank return, the lower likelihood of benefit with lapse of time, and the reality that some contributors will not have consented to research, justify more restrictive criteria for return in biobank research than primary research. We recommend that the category of findings warranting an affirmative duty to return (“should return”) be limited to findings of high health importance to the contributor, while discretionary return (“may return”) should apply to findings of lesser health importance and those of reproductive importance and personal utility.
