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Ethical issues arising from the INTERGROWTH ‐21 st Fetal Growth Longitudinal Study
Author(s) -
Burton F
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0528.12030
Subject(s) - fetal growth , ethical issues , set (abstract data type) , pregnancy , engineering ethics , sociology , fetus , computer science , engineering , biology , genetics , programming language
The INTERGROWTH‐21st Project presented a complex set of ethical challenges given the involvement of health institutions in geographically and culturally diverse areas of the world, with differing attitudes to pregnancy. This paper addresses how the research team dealt with some of those issues.