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- Title
Decisions regarding treatment of seriously ill newborns.
- Authors
Fost, Norman; Fost, N
- Abstract
Editorial. Suggests that there has been a dramatic transformation in the process and substance of decisions regarding medical treatment of seriously ill and handicapped newborns. History of treatments in the 19th century, 1970s and 1980s; How neonatal care has changed; Whether profoundly handicapped adults consider their lives worth living.
- Subjects
PERINATAL care; MEDICAL care of children with disabilities; NEONATOLOGY; PEOPLE with disabilities; ATTITUDE (Psychology); NEONATAL diseases; DECISION making; ETHICS; HEALTH attitudes; MEDICAL ethics; NEONATAL intensive care; RESOURCE allocation; SOCIAL change; UNCERTAINTY; EMPIRICAL research; PATIENT selection; PASSIVE euthanasia; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1999, Vol 281, Issue 21, p2041
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
commentary
- DOI
10.1001/jama.281.21.2041