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Published on: October 9, 2018
Fetal medicine
1Division of General Paediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
Fetal medicine is the practice of medicine where the patient is the fetus. The traditional activities of clinical medicine: prevention, screening, diagnosis, and therapy are directed at decreasing, identifying and treating fetal disease. Examples of successful preventative, screening, diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers involving the fetus are presented. A plea is made for the systematic evaluation of the new technology being developed in fetal medicine. The same standard of evidence-the randomized, controlled clinical trial-which is more and more applied to traditional medical practice-should also be the gold standard for fetal medicine.
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