What price information? Modelling threshold probabilities of fetal loss

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 823-830

  Cairns, John ^a   Shackley, Phil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Antenatal screening; Standard gamble

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK-TAKING; SAMPLING STUDIES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0032837295     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00175-6     Document Type: Article

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