Fetal anomaly screening: What do women want to know?

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-19

  Lalor, Joan ^a   Begley, Cecily ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Empirical research report; Fetal anomaly; Grounded theory; Information; Interviews; Midwifery; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33744932473     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2006.03884.x     Document Type: Article

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