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PREGNANCY

Pregnant women are satisfied with the information they receive about prenatal diagnosis, but are their decisions well informed?

Kjerstin Ferm Widlund Department of Pathology and Genetics, Division of Genetics, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Centre of Fetal Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Cecilia Gunnarsson Department of Pathology and Genetics, Division of Genetics, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
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Karin Nordin Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Mats G. Hansson Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Pages 1128-1132 | Received 11 May 2009, Published online: 19 Sep 2009

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