Routine prenatal screening for congenital heart disease: What can be expected? A decision-analytic approach

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 962-967

  Buskens, Erik ^a,c   Steyerberg, Ewout W ^a   Hess, John ^b   Wladimiroff, Jury W ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL SCREENING; PROBABILITY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

EID: 0030802215     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.6.962     Document Type: Article

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