The groningen protocol: Is it necessary? Is it scientific? Is it ethical?

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 199-205

  Chervenak, Frank A ^a   McCullough, Laurence B ^b   Arabin, Birgit ^c  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethics; Euthanasia; Evidence based reasoning; Groningen Protocol; Quality of life; Unbearable suffering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; GRONINGEN PROTOCOL; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PARENTAL CONSENT; PEDIATRICS; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPONSIBILITY; SPINA BIFIDA; ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHICS; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 63849318107     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2009.058     Document Type: Article

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