Prenatal screening for sickle cell anemia: Awareness among health professionals and medical students at the lagos university teaching hospital and the concept of prevention by termination

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 252-256

  Adeola Animasahun, Barakat ^a   Nwodo, Urowoli ^b   Njokanma, Olisamedu Fidelis ^a  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b Premier Specialist Hospital   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Health professionals; prenatal screening; Sickle cell anemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHRISTIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOSLEM; NIGERIA; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIGION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT ATTITUDE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; NIGERIA; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84860783601     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31824e3109     Document Type: Article

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