Disclosure and consent: ensuring the ethical provision of information regarding childbirth
Ethical medical care of pregnant women in Australia should include the real provision of information regarding the risks and benefits of vaginal birth. Routinely obtaining consent for the different ways in which childbirth is commonly intervened on and the assistance involved (such as midwife-led ca...
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2023
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| description | Ethical medical care of pregnant women in Australia should include the real provision of information regarding the risks and benefits of vaginal birth. Routinely obtaining consent for the different ways in which childbirth is commonly intervened on and the assistance involved (such as midwife-led care or a planned caesarean section) and providing sufficient information for women to evaluate the harms and benefits of the care on offer, would not only enable the empowerment of women but would align with the current standard of care as established by Rogers v Whittaker. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a5b835b6-6731-43d4-951e-3f4cf8f3726b2023-10-12T10:02:32ZDisclosure and consent: ensuring the ethical provision of information regarding childbirthJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a5b835b6-6731-43d4-951e-3f4cf8f3726bEnglishSymplectic ElementsBMJ Publishing Group2023Irvine, KBrown, RCHSavulescu, JEthical medical care of pregnant women in Australia should include the real provision of information regarding the risks and benefits of vaginal birth. Routinely obtaining consent for the different ways in which childbirth is commonly intervened on and the assistance involved (such as midwife-led care or a planned caesarean section) and providing sufficient information for women to evaluate the harms and benefits of the care on offer, would not only enable the empowerment of women but would align with the current standard of care as established by Rogers v Whittaker. |
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