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. 2021 Jun 14;22:395. doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05341-2

Table 2.

Multi-stage consent and assent process

Consent step Coverage Who is offered consent? Assent component Timing
Intervention 1a Consent 1

- Randomization to PVP (versus not getting PVP)

- Intake, pre-visit, and post-visit surveys

Every parent participant No During enrollment call by phone
Intervention 2a Consent 2

- Randomization to be offered ES (versus not being offered ES)

- Acknowledge discussion of patients’ rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

- Sharing of child’s and parent’s study data with approved investigators and databanks

- Use of the child’s medical record until 18 years of age

- Linkage of study data to public and private datasets (e.g., health insurance claims data)

- Re-contact

- Opt-in or out of future research use of study data

Every parent participant who completes a clinic visitc Yesb After the clinic visit
Consent 3

- ES with clinical confirmation

- Results to be placed in the child’s medical record

- Future use of biospecimen and associated data

- Opt-in or out of medically actionable results unrelated to child’s condition (i.e., secondary results)

- Opt-in or out of future use of child’s specimen/DNA and related data

Every parent/child dyad randomized to ES Yesb

aIntervention 1 is the pre-visit preparation intervention, and Intervention 2 is the exome sequencing intervention

bChildren are determined to be developmentally able to assent if they are both chronologically and developmentally 7 years or older. Developmental age is determined by the physician who conducted their clinical appointment

cIn rare cases, the child may receive a diagnosis at the clinic visit and be withdrawn from the study and not be offered consent 2