Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) offers pregnant women a new risk assessment tool for fetal aneuploidy that is superior to conventional screening tests. We conducted focus groups with women who were currently pregnant or had recently delivered in the past year to characterize their perspectives about NIPT and to explore factors they would consider during decision making about its use. Women ...

Lucian Farcal 1,9, Francois Busquet 2, Sandra Coecke 3, Ioana Hristescu 4, Christophe Chesné 5, Christian Pellevoisin 6, Adriana Orasanu 7, Zorita Diaconeasa 8, Adrian Oros 8, Adela Pintea 8 and Carmen Socaciu 8 BIOTOX Srl, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, CAAT-Europe, University of Konstanz, Germany; DG JRC-Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, European ...

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that promises competitive advantages, cost savings, enhanced business processes and services, and various other benefits to enterprises. Despite the rapid technological advancement, the adoption of cloud computing is still growing slowly among small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). This paper presents a model to support the decisionmaking process, us...

This chapter considers a range of alternatives to the proposed action. The purpose of this alternatives analysis is to examine reasonable alternatives to the proposed action that avoid or reduce action-related significant adverse impacts and may still allow for the achievement of the stated goals and objectives of the proposed action. The alternatives analysis also examines additional planning ...

efforts to achieve effective and meaningful patient and public involvement (ppi) in healthcare have existed for nearly a century, albeit with limited success. this brief commentary discusses a recent paper by carter and martin exploring the “challenges facing healthwatch, a new consumer champion in england,” and places these challenges in the context of the broader struggle to give a voice to h...