Seminars in Perinatology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 6-7, February 1997

Fetal medicine

  • William Feldman

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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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PII: S0146-0005(97)80014-6

Seminars in Perinatology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 6-7, February 1997

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