U.S., July 3 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07681518) titled 'Impact of Parental Presence at the Ethics Meeting in Neonatal Intensive Care' on June 26.
Brief Summary: In neonatal intensive care, physicians are sometimes confronted with decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment for a critically ill newborn. In France, these decisions are made by the medical team through a formal collegial ("ethics") meeting. Parents are not legally required to take part in this meeting, and their participation remains very rare at the national level.
Since 2018, the neonatal intensive care unit of Hopital NOVO (Pontoise site) has systematically offered parents the possibility of attending the ...