CPS position statement for prenatal counselling before a premature birth: Simple rules for complicated decisions

Affiliations

• ¹ Pediatrics and clinical ethics, Université de Montréal and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine;
• ² Pediatrics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec;
• ³ Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Royal Alexandra Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Edmonton, Alberta;
• ⁴ Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Miami, Division of Neonatology, University of Miami Health System, Miami, Florida;
• ⁵ Neonatology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, Illinois, USA;
• ⁶ Neonatal Intensive Care, Siena University Hospital, Siena, Italy and the Bioethical Committee of the Italian Pediatric Society;
• ⁷ Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec;
• ⁸ Pediatrics, National Maternity Hospital Dublin, National Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland;
• ⁹ Departments of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta;
• ¹⁰ University of California, Irvine, Kaiser Permanente Orange County, California, and American Society for Bioethics, USA;
• ¹¹ University of Ottawa, Children Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario;
• ¹² Neonatal Medicine, Royal Women's Hospital, Victoria, Australia;
• ¹³ Cork University Maternity Hospital and Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland;
• ¹⁴ CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Quebec;
• ¹⁵ Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, The Ottawa Hospital/Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario;
• ¹⁶ The DeVeber for Bioethics and Social Research, Patients for Patients' Safety Canada;
• ¹⁷ Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland;
• ¹⁸ Pediatrics, Université de Sherbrooke, CHU de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec;
• ¹⁹ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba e-Health Services, Winnipeg, Manitoba;
• ²⁰ Oslo University, Oslo, Norway;
• ²¹ Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York, USA, Montefiore-Einstein Bioethics Committee;
• ²² Pediatrics, McGill University, Jewish General Hospital;
• ²³ Children's Mercy Bioethics Center, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas, USA;
• ²⁴ Neonatal Medicine, Royal Women's and Royal Children's Hospitals, Melbourne, Australia;
• ²⁵ Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Quebec;
• ²⁶ Newborn Services, Maternal & Child Department, Hospital Universitario Austral, Pilar, Argentina;
• ²⁷ Pediatrics, Université Laval, CHU de l'Université Laval, Québec, Québec;
• ²⁸ Pediatrics, University College Dublin, The National Maternity Hospital, National Children's Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland;
• ²⁹ Bioethics in Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA;
• ³⁰ Pediatrics and clinical ethics, University of Montreal, CHU Sainte-Justine;
• ³¹ Pediatrics, Cork University, Cork, Ireland;
• ³² Pediatrics, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;
• ³³ Global Health and Social Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;
• ³⁴ Pediatrics, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
• ³⁵ Pediatrics, Neonatologist, Director of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.