Coping with serum screening for Down syndrome when the result is given as a numeric value

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 816-821

  Quagliarini, Donatella ^a   Betti, Simonetta ^a   Brambati, Bruno ^a   Nicolini, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biochemical screening; Down syndrome; Maternal anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031822035     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199808)18:8<816::AID-PD357>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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