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Open AccessWhat are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?
The prioritization protocols for accessing adult critical care in the extreme pandemic context contain tiebreaker criteria to facilitate decision-making in the allocation of resources between patients with a s...
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Termination of Pregnancy and Perinatal Palliative Care in the Case of Fetal Anomaly: Why Is There so Much Incoherence?
The question of the fetus as a patient is sensitive and we cannot ignore it. To deny the fetus any kind of status is troubling, especially when all prenatal screening and diagnostic tests are directed toward e...
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Predicting the Future of Preterm Infants: Should We Use Quality of Life and Social Determinants Criteria?
In neonatology, many choices to withhold or withdraw treatments are made based on long-term projections of the child’s quality of life. These projections are essentially made considering medical facts of possi...
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Comment on “Adult ICU ventilators to provide neonatal ventilation: a lung simulator study”
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Hospital stay and short-term follow-up of children of drug-abusing mothers born in an urban community hospital – a retrospective review
In order to assess the current use of medical and social services of children of drug-abusing mothers in regard to their short term outcome in a Swiss urban community hospital, we compared hospital, private p...
