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. 2020 Nov 5;107(5):942–952. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.10.003

Table 1.

Univariate Analysis of Clinician Perception of Clinical Utility of rWGS, rWES, and urWGS in NICU, PICU, and CVICU Infants

rWES rWGS rWES versus rWGS p Value urWGS urWGS versus rWES+ rWGS P value Positive Tests Negative Tests Pos versus Neg Tests p Value
Infants enrolleda 95 94 N/A 24 N/A 51 162 N/A
Test identified molecular diagnosis or incidental finding, n (%)a 20 (21%) 20 (21%) 1 11 (46%) 0.01 N/A N/A N/A
Time to first positive or negative report (days), median (range)a 11.2 (4−39) 11.0 (3−49) 0.65 4.6 (1–4) <0.0001 N/A N/A N/A
Time to first positive report (days), median (range)a 11.4 (8−39) 11.8 (3−25) 0.69 2.3 (1–14) 0.0002 N/A N/A N/A

Clinician Perception

Surveys completed, n (%) 90 (95%) 93 (99%) N/D 24 (100%) N/D 49 (96%) 158 (98%) N/D
Test was useful or very useful, n (%) 66 (76%) 66 (73%) 0.73 22 (92%) 0.07 42 (93%) 112 (72%) 0.002
Test changed management, n (%) 19 (21%) 23 (25%) 0.6 15 (63%) 0.0001 31 (63%) 26 (16%) <0.00001
Test changed an outcome, n (%) 17 (19%) 9 (10%) 0.09 6 (25%) 0.22 19 (39%) 13 (8%) <0.00001
Test improved communication, n (%) 34 (38%) 34 (37%) 0.88 16 (67%) 0.008 34 (69%) 50 (32%) <0.00001
Test increased stress or confusion, n (%) 3 (35) 1 (1%) 0.36 2 (8%) 0.14 4 (8%) 2 (1%) 0.14
Test let to other changes in management, n (%) 20 (22%) 21 (23%) 1 10 (42%) 0.047 40 (82%) 11 (7%) <0.00001
Test led to another test being cancelled, n (%) 16 (19%) 20 (22%) 1 8 (32%) 0.18 13 (27%) 31 (20%) 0.32
Test led to another test being ordered, n (%) 11 (12%) 15 (16%) 0.53 5 (21%) 0.37 19 (39%) 9 (6%) <0.00001

N/A, not applicable; N/D, not done. Rates of occurrence were compared between groups with Fisher’s exact test. A significance cutoff of α = 0.05 was used for all analyses. All analyses were conducted in R v.3.3.3.

a

Results were previously published.6