Proactive neonatal treatment at 22 weeks of gestation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

CH Backes, BK Rivera, L Pavlek, LJ Beer… - American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective The objective of this study was to provide a systematic review and meta-analysis
to quantify prognosis and identify factors associated with variations in reported mortality …

Personalized decision making: practical recommendations for antenatal counseling for fragile neonates

MF Haward, N Gaucher, A Payot, K Robson… - Clin Perinatol, 2017 - degruyter.com
Fifty years ago, it was not rare for infants born with congenital anomalies or near-term to die.
Neonatology is a recent specialty, emerging in the 1960s as a discipline dedicating itself to …

Survival and impairment of extremely premature infants: a meta-analysis

HT Myrhaug, KG Brurberg, L Hov, T Markestad - Pediatrics, 2019 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the prognosis of survival and risk of impairment for infants born
at 22+ 0/7 weeks' to 27+ 6/7 weeks' gestational age (GA) in high-income countries. DATA …

Postponed withholding: Balanced decision-making at the margins of viability

J Syltern, L Ursin, B Solberg, R Støen - The American Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Advances in neonatology have led to improved survival for periviable infants. Immaturity still
carries a high risk of short-and long-term harms, and uncertainty turns provision of life …

Counselling and management for anticipated extremely preterm birth

B Lemyre, G Moore - Paediatrics & child health, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Counselling couples facing the birth of an extremely preterm infant is a complex and delicate
task, entailing both challenges and opportunities. This revised position statement proposes …

Decision-making at the limit of viability: differing perceptions and opinions between neonatal physicians and nurses

HU Bucher, SD Klein, MJ Hendriks, R Baumann-Hölzle… - BMC pediatrics, 2018 - Springer
Background In the last 20 years, the chances for intact survival for extremely preterm infants
have increased in high income countries. Decisions about withholding or withdrawing …

Development of nationwide recommendations to support prenatal counseling in extreme prematurity

R Geurtzen, AFJ Van Heijst, JMT Draaisma… - …, 2019 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES: To develop a nationwide, evidence-based framework to support prenatal
counseling in extreme prematurity, focusing on organization, decision-making, content, and …

Field testing of decision coaching with a decision aid for parents facing extreme prematurity

GP Moore, B Lemyre, T Daboval, S Ding, S Dunn… - Journal of …, 2017 - nature.com
Objective: The objective of this study is to assess and modify an existing decision aid and
field-test decision coaching with the modified aid during consultations with parents facing …

Decision-making in imminent extreme premature births: perceived shared decision-making, parental decisional conflict and decision regret

R Geurtzen, JFM van den Heuvel, JJ Huisman… - Journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Objective To describe levels of perceived shared decision making (SDM), decisional conflict
(DC), and decision regret (DR) in prenatal counseling by pregnant women, partners …

What hinders and helps in the end‐of‐life decision‐making process for children: Parents' and physicians' views

IH Zaal‐Schuller, R Geurtzen, DL Willems… - Acta …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate the main factors which facilitate or hinder end‐of‐life decision‐making
(EoLDM) in neonates and children. Methods A qualitative inductive, thematic analysis was …