"Doctor, what would you do?": Physicians' responses to patient inquiries about periviable delivery

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 49-54

  Tucker Edmonds, Brownsyne ^a   McKenzie, Fatima ^a   Panoch, Janet E ^a   Wocial, Lucia D ^b   Barnato, Amber E ^c   Frankel, Richard M ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IU Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Doctor patient communication; Neonatal resuscitation; Periviability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DELIVERY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NEONATOLOGIST; OBSTETRICIAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PILOT STUDY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; RESUSCITATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; FETAL WELL BEING; INDIANA; MIDDLE AGED; NEONATOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FETAL VIABILITY; HUMANS; INDIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEONATOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84920150426     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.09.014     Document Type: Article

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