Pregnant women's perspectives on decision-making when a fetal malformation is detected by ultrasound examination

Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 79-84

  Asplin, Nina ^a,b,c   Wessel, Hans ^a,d   Marions, Lena ^a,b   öhman, Susanne Georgsson ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c SOPHIAHEMMET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Sweden)

^d Wessel MediConsult AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; Malformation; Prenatal diagnosis; Termination; Ultrasound examination

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLEFT LIP; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LUNG MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOPLASM; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; THORAX MALFORMATION;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84879841707     PISSN: 18775756     EISSN: 18775764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.srhc.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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