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New Frontiers and Old Challenges: How to Manage Incidental Findings When Forensic Diagnosis Goes Beyond
Incidental findings (IFs) are well known in medical research and clinical practice as unexpected findings having potential health or reproductive importance for an individual. IFs are discovered under different contexts but do not fall within the aim of a study, and/or are unanticipated or unintenti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7555971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32971910 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10090731 |
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author | Caenazzo, Luciana Tozzo, Pamela Dierickx, Kris |
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description | Incidental findings (IFs) are well known in medical research and clinical practice as unexpected findings having potential health or reproductive importance for an individual. IFs are discovered under different contexts but do not fall within the aim of a study, and/or are unanticipated or unintentionally revealed, and/or are not the specific focus or target of the particular research or clinical query. Today, in forensic settings, we can consider as incidental findings all the information that is neither related to the cause of death nor to the dynamic of the event or the scope of the forensic investigation. The question whether and how professionals should consider traditional values as guiding notions in the reporting of IFs in the context of forensic assessments is the focus of this article. We propose a descriptive analysis, which focuses on the forensic field, describing forensic situations in which IFs may occur, and whether and to whom they may be disclosed. Some considerations will be provided regarding forensic experts concerning their moral commitment to warn relatives about IFs. |
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spelling | pubmed-75559712020-10-19 New Frontiers and Old Challenges: How to Manage Incidental Findings When Forensic Diagnosis Goes Beyond Caenazzo, Luciana Tozzo, Pamela Dierickx, Kris Diagnostics (Basel) Commentary Incidental findings (IFs) are well known in medical research and clinical practice as unexpected findings having potential health or reproductive importance for an individual. IFs are discovered under different contexts but do not fall within the aim of a study, and/or are unanticipated or unintentionally revealed, and/or are not the specific focus or target of the particular research or clinical query. Today, in forensic settings, we can consider as incidental findings all the information that is neither related to the cause of death nor to the dynamic of the event or the scope of the forensic investigation. The question whether and how professionals should consider traditional values as guiding notions in the reporting of IFs in the context of forensic assessments is the focus of this article. We propose a descriptive analysis, which focuses on the forensic field, describing forensic situations in which IFs may occur, and whether and to whom they may be disclosed. Some considerations will be provided regarding forensic experts concerning their moral commitment to warn relatives about IFs. MDPI 2020-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7555971/ /pubmed/32971910 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10090731 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Commentary Caenazzo, Luciana Tozzo, Pamela Dierickx, Kris New Frontiers and Old Challenges: How to Manage Incidental Findings When Forensic Diagnosis Goes Beyond |
title | New Frontiers and Old Challenges: How to Manage Incidental Findings When Forensic Diagnosis Goes Beyond |
title_full | New Frontiers and Old Challenges: How to Manage Incidental Findings When Forensic Diagnosis Goes Beyond |
title_fullStr | New Frontiers and Old Challenges: How to Manage Incidental Findings When Forensic Diagnosis Goes Beyond |
title_full_unstemmed | New Frontiers and Old Challenges: How to Manage Incidental Findings When Forensic Diagnosis Goes Beyond |
title_short | New Frontiers and Old Challenges: How to Manage Incidental Findings When Forensic Diagnosis Goes Beyond |
title_sort | new frontiers and old challenges: how to manage incidental findings when forensic diagnosis goes beyond |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7555971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32971910 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10090731 |
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