General practitioners and prenatal testing - Follow the experts or scrutinise the issue?

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 145-148

  Getz, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EDITORIAL; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

EID: 0034796887     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028134301316982324     Document Type: Editorial

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