Barriers in referring neonatal patients to perinatal palliative care: a French multicenter survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When an incurable fetal condition is detected, some women (or couples) would rather choose to continue with the pregnancy than opt for termination of pregnancy for medical reasons, which, in France, can be performed until full term. Such situations are frequently occurring and sometimes leading to the implementation of neonatal palliative care. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the practices of perinatal care french professionals in this context; to identify the potential obstacles that might interfere with the provision of an appropriate neonatal palliative care; and, from an opposite perspective, to determine the criteria that led, in some cases, to offer this type of care for prenatally diagnosed lethal abnormality.

Methods

We used an email survey s

SUBMITTER: Tosello B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4433103 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature