The limits of perinatal viability: Grappling with the "grey zone"

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 477-479

  Darlow, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; FETAL WELL BEING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENT COUNSELING; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; RESUSCITATION; RIGHT TO LIFE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33751065294     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00659.x     Document Type: Editorial

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