Dilemmas related to pregnancy loss

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 571-574

  Robinson, Gail Erlick ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

genetic terminations; in vitro fertilization; miscarriage; Pregnancy loss; stillbirth

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO ABORTION; BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING; CHILDLESSNESS; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GRIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MATERNAL DISEASE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANXIETY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRIEF; GUILT; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 80051709618     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318225f31e     Document Type: Review

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