When there's a heartbeat: Miscarriage management in Catholic-owned hospitals

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1774-1778

  Freedman, Lori R ^a,b   Landy, Uta ^a   Steinauer, Jody ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETUS HEART; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART BEAT; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CURETTAGE; EMERGENCY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL STAFF; OBSTETRICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CATHOLICISM; COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCIES; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, RELIGIOUS; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSTETRICS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT SELECTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; VACUUM CURETTAGE;

EID: 52449130188     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.126730     Document Type: Review

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