PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eric Vogelstein
TI  - Decision-making at the border of viability: determining the best interests of extremely preterm infants
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2019-105816
DP  - 2020 Nov 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 773--779
VI  - 46
IP  - 11
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/46/11/773.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/46/11/773.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2020 Nov 01; 46
AB  - This paper proposes and employs a framework for determining whether life-saving treatment at birth is in the best interests of extremely preterm infants, given uncertainty about the outcome of such a choice. It argues that given relevant data and plausible assumptions about the well-being of babies with various outcomes, it is typically in the best interests of even the youngest preterm infants—those born at 22 weeks gestational age—to receive life-saving treatment at birth.