Parents of dying newborns need clearer explanation of options

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 12:35 in Health & Medicine

Parent-doctor discussions about whether to maintain or withdraw life support from terminally ill or severely premature newborns are so plagued by miscommunication and misunderstanding that they might as well be in different languages, according to a small but potentially instructive new study from Johns Hopkins Children's Centre reported in the September issue of Pediatrics...

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