Personalized Decision Making: Practical Recommendations for Antenatal Counseling for Fragile Neonates

Emphasis has been placed on engaging parents in processes of shared decision making for delivery room management decisions of critically ill neonates whose outcomes are uncertain and unpredictable. The goal of antenatal consultation should rather be to adapt to parental needs and empower them throug...

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Published inClinics in perinatology Vol. 44; no. 2; p. 429
Main Authors Haward, Marlyse F, Gaucher, Nathalie, Payot, Antoine, Robson, Kate, Janvier, Annie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.06.2017
Subjects
Communication
Counseling
Decision Making
Decision Support Techniques
Ethics, Medical
Fetal Viability
Gestational Age
Humans
Infant, Extremely Premature
Infant, Newborn
Informed Consent
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
Neonatology
Palliative Care
Parents
Precision Medicine
Resuscitation
Ethics
NICU
Antenatal consultation
Shared decision making palliative care
Personalized decision making limit of viability
Prematurity
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Summary:Emphasis has been placed on engaging parents in processes of shared decision making for delivery room management decisions of critically ill neonates whose outcomes are uncertain and unpredictable. The goal of antenatal consultation should rather be to adapt to parental needs and empower them through a personalized decision-making process. This can be done by acknowledging individuality and diversity while respecting the best interests of neonates. The goal is for parents to feel like they have agency and ability and are good parents, before birth, at birth, and after, either in the NICU or until the death of their child.
ISSN:1557-9840
DOI:10.1016/j.clp.2017.01.006