'Hope for safe prenatal gene tests'. A content analysis of how the UK press media are reporting advances in non-invasive prenatal testing

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 420-427

  Lewis, Celine ^a   Choudhury, Mahrufa ^a   Chitty, Lyn S ^a,b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DOWN SYNDROME; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON INVASIVE PRENATAL TESTING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNITED KINGDOM; BLOOD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETICS; PUBLICATION;

DNA;

DECISION MAKING; DNA; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC TESTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NEWSPAPERS AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928390791     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4488     Document Type: Article

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