For Debate: Continuing with pregnancy after a diagnosis of lethal abnormality: Experience of five couples and recommendations for management

BMJ

Volumn 313, Issue 7055, 1996, Pages 478-480

  Chitty, Lyn S ^a   Barnes, Chris A ^a   Berry, Caroline ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; OBSTETRIC CARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COMPASSION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GREAT BRITAIN; PREGNANT WOMEN; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SELECTIVE ABORTION; SURVEY;

ABORTION, LEGAL; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0029758768     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7055.478     Document Type: Article

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