Attitudes of maternal-fetal specialists concerning maternal-fetal surgery

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Fifty-seven percent of doctors who specialize in maternal-fetal medicine believe that more research is needed before open maternal-fetal surgery is performed for non-lethal conditions. This was the conclusion of a survey of 943 maternal-fetal medicine specialists.

Author: Sugarman, Jeremy, Lyerly, Anne D., Cefalo, Robert C., Socol, Michael, Fogarty, Linda
Fetus, Surgery, Ethical aspects, Prenatal care, Fetal surgery

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Initial development of a system-wide maternal-fetal outcomes assessment program

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Researchers evaluated two outcome assessment programs for 10,984 new mothers and their babies at 79 US military treatment facilities. These could be used as models for future outcome assessment programs.

Author: Novicoff, Wendy M., Wagner, Douglas P., Knaus, William A., Kane, Elizabeth K., Cecere, Fred, Draper, Elizabeth, Ferguson, James E., II
Reports, Medical examination, Infants (Newborn), Neonatal screening, Outcome and process assessment (Health Care), Outcome and process assessment (Medical care)

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