Clinical practice guidelines for perinatal bereavement care—an overview

FM Boyle, D Horey, PF Middleton, V Flenady - Women and birth, 2020 - Elsevier
Background High quality perinatal bereavement care is critical for women and families
following stillbirth or newborn death. It is a challenging area of practice and a difficult area …

Parents' experiences of receiving their child's diagnosis of congenital heart disease: A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of the qualitative literature

S Dandy, A Wittkowski… - British Journal of Health …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This systematic review aimed to synthesize qualitative research on parents'
psychological experiences following their child's diagnosis of congenital heart disease …

Parental decision-making following a prenatal diagnosis that is lethal, life-limiting, or has long term implications for the future child and family: a meta-synthesis of …

C Blakeley, DM Smith, ED Johnstone, A Wittkowski - BMC medical ethics, 2019 - Springer
Background Information on the factors influencing parents' decision-making process
following a lethal, life-limiting or severely debilitating prenatal diagnosis remains deficient. A …

Implementation of exome sequencing in fetal diagnostics—Data and experiences from a tertiary center in Denmark

N Becher, L Andreasen, P Sandager… - Acta Obstetricia et …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Applying whole‐exome sequencing (WES) for the diagnosis of diseases in
children has shown significant diagnostic strength compared with chromosomal microarray …

National screening guidelines and developments in prenatal diagnoses and live births of Down syndrome in 1973–2016 in Denmark

S Lou, OB Petersen, FS Jørgensen… - Acta Obstetricia et …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Denmark was the first country in the world to implement a national, free‐for‐all
offer of prenatal screening for Down syndrome to all pregnant women. It has a high uptake …

Receiving the news of Down syndrome in the era of prenatal testing

NMTH Crombag… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To explore the prenatal trajectory and the experiences of mothers of a child with
Down syndrome (DS) at the time of receiving information or test results when participating in …

Decisions parents make when faced with potentially life-limiting fetal diagnoses and the importance of perinatal palliative care

KL Marc-Aurele - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
When parents face a potentially life-limiting fetal diagnosis in pregnancy, they then have a
series of decisions to make. These include confirmatory testing, termination, and additional …

Parental information about the option to apply for pregnancy termination after the detection of a congenital abnormality and factors influencing parental decision …

K Hjort-Pedersen, AW Olesen, E Garne… - BMC Pregnancy and …, 2022 - Springer
Background The detection of an abnormality during prenatal screening implies that the
parents are informed about possible treatment and management of the pregnancy, birth, and …

Delivering unexpected news via obstetric ultrasound: A systematic review and meta‐ethnographic synthesis of expectant parent and staff experiences

J Johnson, A Dunning, R Sattar, J Arezina… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Expectant parents report negative experiences of receiving unexpected news via
ultrasound. There is a need to improve communication in this setting, but a lack of …

Actions and Uncertainty: How Prenatally Diagnosed Variants of Uncertain Significance Become Actionable

A Werner‐Lin, JLM McCoyd… - Hastings Center …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of genomic technologies has seemed almost magical. Excitement about it,
both in medicine and among the public, stems from the belief that genomic techniques will …