Decision-making for termination of pregnancies with fetal anomalies: Analysis of 53,000 pregnancies

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 216-222

  Schechtman, Kenneth B ^a   Gray, Diana L ^a,b   Baty, Jack D ^a   Rothman, Steven M ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLUBFOOT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; GASTROSCHISIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYDROURETER; INDUCED ABORTION; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY; OMPHALOCELE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINA BIFIDA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ABNORMALITIES; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MISSOURI; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0036152906     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(01)01673-8     Document Type: Article

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