Palliative care for prenatally diagnosed lethal fetal abnormality

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Breeze, A C G ^a   Lees, C C ^a   Kumar, A ^a   Missfelder Lobos, H H ^a   Murdoch, E M ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS DISEASE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 33846373060     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.092122     Document Type: Article

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