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Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn

Australia

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Perinatal care at the borderlines of viability: a consensus statement based on a NSW and ACT consensus workshop [2006]

• O&G Magazine
  • Issues of consent for fetal pathology [2018]

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Perinatal care of extremely preterm baby

• Reproductive Health
  • Factors influencing the care provided for periviable babies in Australia: a narrative review [2015]

• Sands
  • Sands Australian Principles of Bereavement Care [2018]

• Women and Birth
  • Caring for families experiencing stillbirth: Evidence-based guidance for maternity care providers [2015]

Australia, New Zealand

• Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
  • Clinical Practice Guideline for Care Around Stillbirth and Neonatal Death [2020]

Austria

• Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
  • Neonatology in Austria: ethics to improve practice [2020]

Canada

• BMC Research Notes
  • A transdisciplinary approach to the decision-making process in extreme prematurity [2014]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Supporting and communicating with families experiencing a perinatal loss [2018]
  • Counselling and management for anticipated extremely preterm birth [2017]

• CMAJ
  • Sex ratios at birth after induced abortion [2016]

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Management of the Mother / Fetus and Newborn Near the Threshold of Neonatal Viability (22 – 25 Completed Weeks) [2016]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Fetal Sex Determination and Disclosure Policy Statement [2017]

Croatia

• Medicina
  • End-of-Life Decision-Making in Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Croatia-A Focus Group Study among Nurses and Physicians [2022]

Europe

• European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
  • ESHRE Task Force on ethics and Law 20: sex selection for non-medical reasons [2013]

• European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
  • Ethical decision-making & palliative care

Greece

• BMC Medical Ethics
  • Physicians’ attitudes in relation to end-of-life decisions in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: a national multicenter survey [2020]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Neonatal End-of-Life Decision Making: The Possible Behavior of Greek Physicians, Midwives, and Nurses in Clinical Scenarios [2021]

India

• BMJ Global Health
  • Is sex ratio at birth an appropriate measure of prenatal sex selection? Findings of a theoretical model and its application to India [2018]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Trends in missing females at birth in India from 1981 to 2016: analyses of 2·1 million birth histories in nationally representative surveys [2021]

International

• Newborn Brain Society
  • Ethical considerations in the care of encephalopathic neonates treated with therapeutic hypothermia [2021]

• Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Sex selection and non-invasive prenatal testing: A review of current practices, evidence, and ethical issues [2020]

Iran

• Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research
  • Compilation of the neonatal palliative care clinical guideline in neonatal intensive care unit [2015]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Perinatal Management of Extreme Preterm Birth at the Threshold of Viability [2021]

• Midwifery
  • Governance of maternity services: Effects on the management of perinatal deaths and bereavement services [2021]
  • Impact of bereavement care and pregnancy loss services on families: Findings and recommendations from Irish inquiry reports [2020]

Italy

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Recommendations for neonatologists and pediatricians working in first level birthing centers on the first communication of genetic disease and malformation syndrome diagnosis: consensus issued by 6 Italian scientific societies and 4 parents’ associations [2021]

Nepal

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence and correlates of sex-selective abortions and missing girls in Nepal: evidence from the 2011 Population Census and 2016 Demographic and Health Survey [2021]

• Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
  • Policy Brief: Legal Landscape: Gender-biased Sex Selection in Nepal [2020]
  • Breaking the Barriers: Safeguarding the Rights of Girl Infants [2017]
  • Understanding Factors influencing Adverse sex ratios at birth and Exploring what works to achieve balance: The situation in Selected districts of Nepal [2015]

Netherlands

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Preferred prenatal counselling at the limits of viability: a survey among Dutch perinatal professionals [2018]

• European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Professionals’ preferences in prenatal counseling at the limits of viability: a nationwide qualitative Dutch study [2017]
  • Perinatal practice in extreme premature delivery: variation in Dutch physicians’ preferences despite guideline [2016]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • The Edge of Perinatal Viability: Understanding the Dutch Position [2021]

• Hippokratia
  • Involuntary euthanasia of severely ill newborns: is the Groningen Protocol really dangerous? [2014]

Republic of Korea

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
  • Effects of Socio-demographic Factors on the Decreasing Trend in the Sex Ratio at Birth in Korea, 1997-2017 [2020]

Singapore

• Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore
  • Maternal and fetal best interests in day-to-day obstetrics [2011]

Spain

• Sociedad Española de Neonatología
  • Perinatal palliative care [2022]

Switzerland

• Swiss Society of Neonatology
  • Perinatal care at the limit of viability between 22 and 26 completed weeks of gestation in Switzerland [2011]

United Kingdom

• Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
  • Babies born at the threshold of viability: changes in survival and workload over 20 years [2012]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Perinatal Management of Pregnant Women at the Threshold of Infant Viability [2014]

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Guidance for Pediatric End-of-Life Care [2022]
  • Noninitiation or Withdrawal of Intensive Care for High-Risk Newborns [2015]
  • Antenatal Counseling Regarding Resuscitation and Intensive Care Before 25 Weeks of Gestation [2015]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Perinatal Palliative Care [2019]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Neonatal End-of-Life Symptom Management [2020]

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