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Information Sharing To Promote Informed Choice In Prenatal Screening In The Spirit Of The Sogc Clinical Practice Guideline: A Proposal For An Alternative Model, Meredith G. Vanstone

Meredith Vanstone

The 2011 SOGC clinical practice guideline “Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy in Singleton Pregnancies” recommends that clinicians offer prenatal screening to all pregnant women and provide counselling in a non-directive manner . Non-directive counselling is intended to facilitate autonomous decision-making and remove the clinician’s views regarding a particular course of action . However, recent research in genetic counselling raises concerns that nondirective counselling is neither possible nor desirable, and that it may not be the best way to facilitate informed choice . We propose an alternative model of information-sharing specific to prenatal screening that combines attributes of the models of …