Background. The role of cognitive biases and heuristics in medical decision making is of
growing interest. The purpose of this study was to determine whether studies on cognitive …

The nature and content of the conversations between the healthcare team and the parents
concerning withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining interventions for neonates vary …

BACKGROUND Synthetic biology, nanotechnology, geoengineering, and other innovative
technologies share a property: Their effects must often be inferred long before they are …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Patients must be informed about risks before any treatment can
be implemented. Yet serious problems in communicating these risks occur because of …

Perinatal care of pregnant women at high risk for preterm delivery and of preterm infants
born at the limit of viability (22-26 completed weeks of gestation) requires a multidisciplinary …

Graph literacy is an often neglected skill that influences decision making performance. We
conducted an experiment to investigate whether individual differences in graph literacy …

Periviable births comprise a particularly high-risk group of patients cared for by obstetricians,
neonatologists, and other caregivers. Periviable birth is currently defined as delivery …

Purpose of Review: A significant number of pregnancies are complicated by a fetus with a
life-limiting diagnosis. As diagnoses are made earlier in the pregnancy, families experience …

The ethical dilemmas and predominant frameworks surrounding decision making for
critically ill newborns have evolved substantially over the last 40 years. A shared decision …

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 …