Informed Consent, Patient Education, and Counseling

Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 48-62

  Baker, Anne ^a   Beresford, Terry ^b  

^a The Hope Clinic for Women Ltd   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Assessing patients' preabortion emotional needs; Communicating nonjudgmental attitudes; Factors affecting postabortion emotional outcome and coping; Informed consent elements prior to abortion; Informed consent, patient education and counseling; Needs Assessment Form (Courtesy of the Hope Clinic for Women); Patient education related to abortion provision; Postabortion counseling; Preabortion counseling benefits; Supportive interventions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891037243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444313031.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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