Obstetricians' views on the ethics of cardiac surgery for newborns with common aneuploidies.
Prenat Diagn
; 38(5): 303-309, 2018 04.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To examine whether obstetricians think that cardiac surgery is ethical in babies with common aneuploidies and whether insurance companies should be required to pay for these surgeries. STUDYDESIGN:
A survey was e-mailed to 2897 OB-GYNs, and 898 (31%) actively practicing obstetricians responded to the survey. Respondents were asked whether it is ethical to offer cardiac surgery for babies with heart defects diagnosed with trisomies 21, 18, and 13 and Turner syndrome and whether insurance companies should be required to pay for such surgeries in cases of trisomy 18 or 13. Chi-square tests were utilized to compare responses by using an alpha level of .05.RESULTS:
Most obstetricians thought that offering cardiac surgery was ethical if the baby had trisomy 21 or Turner syndrome (94%), but not trisomy 18 or 13 (75%). Most obstetricians (69%) thought that insurance companies should not be legally required to pay for cardiac surgery for the latter group.CONCLUSION:
Obstetricians were more likely to think cardiac surgery was ethical if the prognosis or the outcome was good. Most respondents did not think that insurance companies should be required to subsidize the cost of cardiac surgeries for all babies with trisomy 18 or 13.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Síndrome da Trissomia do Cromossomo 13
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Síndrome da Trissomía do Cromossomo 18
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Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Cardíacos
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Obstetrícia
Limite:
Humans
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Newborn
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Prenat Diagn
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos