Chunk #70 — 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
Progressing beyond consent, analytic validity, and compliance with applicable legal requirements, we reach the question of what findings should or may be offered back to contributors. Here recommendations vary. Our prior project’s recommendations paper1 and the more recent Fabsitz et al.86 paper differentiate those findings that should be offered, those that may be offered, and those that should not be offered,1,99 recognizing three categories for incidental findings encountered in clinical practice and public health. We recommend below what should generally fall in each of these three categories (should offer, may offer, and should not offer). However, this is really the starting point for a biobank research system, which may further modify these criteria in a way that is sensitive to the biobank population and biobank research design.
