Variation in the treatment of infants born at the borderline of viability

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1588-1590

  Lantos, John D ^a,b   Meadow, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Center for Practical Bioethics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOTE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; FAMILY; FEMALE; FETAL VIABILITY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PRENATAL CARE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 66249112871     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-0030     Document Type: Note

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