The Birth of Tragedy? Extremely Premature Births and Shared Decision-Making

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This article refers to:

Postponed Withholding: Balanced Decision-Making at the Margins of Viability

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Postponed Withholding: An Ethical Tool for Health Care Personnel to Empower Parents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors dedicate this manuscript to the hundreds of pregnant women who have lived through the birth of their extremely premature infant over the past 30 years at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Both JWK and KMD prepared this manuscript, take full responsibility for the contents, and approved the final version.

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This manuscript was supported by Providence Health & Services, Oregon. Providence Health had no role in the preparation of this work. No outside funding was used for manuscript preparation & submission.