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| Fiona A MillerSummaryAffiliation: University of Toronto Country: Canada Publications
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What is a meaningful result? Disclosing the results of genomic research in autism to research participantsFiona Alice Miller
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eur J Hum Genet 18:867-71. 2010....
The primary care physician role in cancer genetics: a qualitative study of patient experienceFiona A Miller
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fam Pract 27:563-9. 2010..The perspective of primary care physicians (PCPs) regarding their role in support of genetic testing has been explored, but little is known about the expectations of patients or the PCP role once genetic test results are received...
One thing leads to another: the cascade of obligations when researchers report genetic research results to study participantsFiona Alice Miller
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eur J Hum Genet 20:837-43. 2012..In addition, they raise challenging questions about how any cascading obligations are to be met, especially where access challenges are already prevalent...
Clinical obligations and public health programmes: healthcare provider reasoning about managing the incidental results of newborn screeningF A Miller
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Med Ethics 35:626-34. 2009..Healthcare providers play a key role in educating families or caring for screened infants and have strong beliefs about the management of incidental results...
What does 'respect for persons' require? Attitudes and reported practices of genetics researchers in informing research participants about researchFiona Alice Miller
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Med Ethics 38:48-52. 2012..Yet little research explores researchers' attitudes and practices regarding the range of initiatives that might serve these ends...
Understanding sickle cell carrier status identified through newborn screening: a qualitative studyFiona A Miller
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eur J Hum Genet 18:303-8. 2010..Disclosure policy related to incidentally generated infant carrier results needs to account for these complex realities...
Consent for newborn screening: the attitudes of health care providersF A Miller
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada
Public Health Genomics 13:181-90. 2010..As newborn screening (NBS) expands to meet a broader definition of benefit, the scope of parental consent warrants reconsideration...
The complex promise of newborn screeningFiona A Miller
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto M5T 3M6 Canada
Indian J Med Ethics 6:142-8. 2009..Frameworks for public health ethics can aid sound policy development in India, and help to inform the larger international debate about the expansion and benefits of NBS...
Postal survey of physicians and laboratories: practices and perceptions of molecular oncology testingFiona A Miller
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 9:131. 2009..Yet knowledge limitations regarding the delivery of testing services may constrain the translation of scientific advancements into effective health care...
Imagining value, imagining users: academic technology transfer for health innovationFiona Alice Miller
Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 3M6
Soc Sci Med 68:1481-8. 2009..Judgments of value are rendered sensible in relation to the logic of valuation for systems of innovation that, in turn, configure users of health innovation in systemic ways...
Questioning the consensus: managing carrier status results generated by newborn screeningFiona Alice Miller
Department of Health Policy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Am J Public Health 99:210-5. 2009..Resolving this dilemma demands consideration of a distinctive body of public health ethics to highlight the moral imperatives associated with the exercise of collective authority in the pursuit of public health benefits...
When research seems like clinical care: a qualitative study of the communication of individual cancer genetic research resultsFiona A Miller
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
BMC Med Ethics 9:4. 2008..Empirical data on these questions are limited. Available evidence suggests, on the one hand, growing support for disclosure, and on the other, the potential for significant harm...
Duty to disclose what? Querying the putative obligation to return research results to participantsF A Miller
Department of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College St, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario MST 3M6, Canada
J Med Ethics 34:210-3. 2008..Even where policy guidance and scholarly commentary have been most forceful in support of an ethical imperative to disclose research results, ambiguity regarding what is to be disclosed confounds ethical action...
Contending visions in the evolution of genetic medicine: the case of cancer genetic services in Ontario, CanadaFiona Alice Miller
Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M6, Canada
Soc Sci Med 67:152-60. 2008..Yet questions about who will control genetic technologies are not simply turf battles between the professions: they are also inescapably questions about what the genetic technologies should and will accomplish clinically...
Health-care providers' views on pursuing reproductive benefit through newborn screening: the case of sickle cell disordersYvonne Bombard
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eur J Hum Genet 20:498-504. 2012..Broader discussion of the balance between benefits to screened individuals and those to families and societies, in the context of public health programs, is needed...
Citizens' values regarding research with stored samples from newborn screening in CanadaYvonne Bombard
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Pediatrics 129:239-47. 2012..We explored Canadian values regarding storage and use of NBS samples for various purposes and the forms of parental choice for anonymous research with NBS samples...
Informing parents about expanded newborn screening: influences on provider involvementRobin Z Hayeems
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 124:950-8. 2009....
A systematic review of the effects of disclosing carrier results generated through newborn screeningR Z Hayeems
Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5T 3M6, Canada
J Genet Couns 17:538-49. 2008..As key players in the management of carrier results clinically, genetic counselors are well positioned to engage in formative research and policy development in this area...
Ethics in Canadian health technology assessment: a descriptive reviewDeirdre DeJean
Health Research Methodology Programme, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 25:463-9. 2009..This study examines both whether and how ethical issues are incorporated into HTA...
Reconsidering reproductive benefit through newborn screening: a systematic review of guidelines on preconception, prenatal and newborn screeningYvonne Bombard
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Eur J Hum Genet 18:751-60. 2010..Traditional norms for NBS may require reconsideration where the remit of screening exceeds the primary goal of clinical benefits for infants...
Incorporating documents into qualitative nursing researchFiona A Miller
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Nurs Scholarsh 37:348-53. 2005..To present an overview of how documents can be incorporated as key sources of data in qualitative nursing research...
Parents' preferences for drug treatments in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a discrete choice experimentHeather F Burnett
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 64:1382-91. 2012..To examine parents' preferences for drug treatments and health outcomes in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and identify demographic and health-related factors that significantly impact choice...
