What about informed consent in first-trimester ultrasound screening for Down syndrome?

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 173-184

  Favre, Romain ^a,c   Moutel, Grégoire ^b   Duchange, Nathalie ^b   Vayssière, Christophe ^a   Kohler, Monique ^a   Bouffet, Nicole ^a   Hunsinger, Marie Christine ^a   Kohler, Anne ^a   Mager, Cécile ^a   Neumann, Muriel ^a   Vayssière, Christine ^a   Viville, Brigitte ^a   Hervé, Christian ^b   Nisand, Israel ^a  

^a Department of Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine ^*  (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c SIHCUS CMCO Centre Medico Chirurgical et Obstetrical   (France)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; First trimester ultrasound scan; Informed consent; Nucal translucency; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SERUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICIAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DECISION MAKING; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 42349089915     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000116738     Document Type: Article

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