Limits of human viability in the United States: A medicolegal review

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1047-1052

  Arzuaga, Bonnie Hope ^a,b   Lee, Ben Hokew ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Goryeb Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c Atlantic Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONCEPTION; CRIME; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN VIABILITY; LAW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83155182626     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-1689     Document Type: Review

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