Building the Partners HealthCare Biobank at Partners Personalized Medicine: Informed Consent, Return of Research Results, Recruitment Lessons and Operational Considerations

Journal of Personalized Medicine

Elizabeth W. Karlson³  Natalie T. Boutin¹  Alison G. Hoffnagle²  Nicole L. Allen³ 

[1] Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA 02115, USA;Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA;Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA;

关键词: Biobank;    Partners Biobank;    biorepository;    personalized medicine;    precision medicine;    Partners HealthCare Biobank;    electronic informed consent;   

DOI  :  10.3390/jpm6010002

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The Partners HealthCare Biobank is a Partners HealthCare enterprise-wide initiative whose goal is to provide a foundation for the next generation of translational research studies of genotype, environment, gene-environment interaction, biomarker and family history associations with disease phenotypes. The Biobank has leveraged in-person and electronic recruitment methods to enroll >30,000 subjects as of October 2015 at two academic medical centers in Partners HealthCare since launching in 2010. Through a close collaboration with the Partners Human Research Committee, the Biobank has developed a comprehensive informed consent process that addresses key patient concerns, including privacy and the return of research results. Lessons learned include the need for careful consideration of ethical issues, attention to the educational content of electronic media, the importance of patient authentication in electronic informed consent, the need for highly secure IT infrastructure and management of communications and the importance of flexible recruitment modalities and processes dependent on the clinical setting for recruitment.

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