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The use of projected autonomy in antenatal shared decision-making for periviable neonates: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: In this study, we assessed the communication strategies used by neonatologists in antenatal consultations which may influence decision-making when determining whether to provide resuscitation or comfort measures only in the care of periviable neonates. METHODS: This study employed a qual...

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Autores principales: Thorvilson, Megan J., Carroll, Katherine, Kaemingk, Bethany D., Schaepe, Karen S., Collura, Christopher A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10691151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38037157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-023-00168-y
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author Thorvilson, Megan J.
Carroll, Katherine
Kaemingk, Bethany D.
Schaepe, Karen S.
Collura, Christopher A.
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description BACKGROUND: In this study, we assessed the communication strategies used by neonatologists in antenatal consultations which may influence decision-making when determining whether to provide resuscitation or comfort measures only in the care of periviable neonates. METHODS: This study employed a qualitative study design using inductive thematic discourse analysis of ‘naturally occurring data’ in the form of antenatal conversations around resuscitation decisions at the grey zone of viability. The study occurred between February 2017 and June 2018 on a labor and delivery unit within a large Midwestern tertiary care hospital. Participants included 25 mothers who were admitted to the study hospital with anticipated delivery in the grey zone of viability and practicing neonatologists or neonatology fellows who partnered in antenatal consultation. We used a two-stage inductive analytic process to focus on how neonatologists’ discourses constructed SDM in antenatal consultations. First, we used a thematic discourse analysis to interpret the recurring patterns of meaning within the transcribed antenatal consultations, and second, we theorized the subsequent effects of these discourses on shaping the context of SDM in antenatal encounters. RESULTS: In this qualitative study, that included discourse analysis of real-time audio conversations in 25 antenatal consults, neonatologists used language that creates projected autonomy through (i) descriptions of fetal physiology (ii) development of the fetus’s presence, and (iii) fetal role in decision-making. CONCLUSION: Discourse analysis of real-time audio conversations in antenatal consultations was revelatory of how various discursive patterns brought the fetus into decision-making, thus changing who is considered the key actor in SDM.
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spelling pubmed-106911512023-12-02 The use of projected autonomy in antenatal shared decision-making for periviable neonates: a qualitative study Thorvilson, Megan J. Carroll, Katherine Kaemingk, Bethany D. Schaepe, Karen S. Collura, Christopher A. Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol Research BACKGROUND: In this study, we assessed the communication strategies used by neonatologists in antenatal consultations which may influence decision-making when determining whether to provide resuscitation or comfort measures only in the care of periviable neonates. METHODS: This study employed a qualitative study design using inductive thematic discourse analysis of ‘naturally occurring data’ in the form of antenatal conversations around resuscitation decisions at the grey zone of viability. The study occurred between February 2017 and June 2018 on a labor and delivery unit within a large Midwestern tertiary care hospital. Participants included 25 mothers who were admitted to the study hospital with anticipated delivery in the grey zone of viability and practicing neonatologists or neonatology fellows who partnered in antenatal consultation. We used a two-stage inductive analytic process to focus on how neonatologists’ discourses constructed SDM in antenatal consultations. First, we used a thematic discourse analysis to interpret the recurring patterns of meaning within the transcribed antenatal consultations, and second, we theorized the subsequent effects of these discourses on shaping the context of SDM in antenatal encounters. RESULTS: In this qualitative study, that included discourse analysis of real-time audio conversations in 25 antenatal consults, neonatologists used language that creates projected autonomy through (i) descriptions of fetal physiology (ii) development of the fetus’s presence, and (iii) fetal role in decision-making. CONCLUSION: Discourse analysis of real-time audio conversations in antenatal consultations was revelatory of how various discursive patterns brought the fetus into decision-making, thus changing who is considered the key actor in SDM. BioMed Central 2023-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10691151/ /pubmed/38037157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-023-00168-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Thorvilson, Megan J.
Carroll, Katherine
Kaemingk, Bethany D.
Schaepe, Karen S.
Collura, Christopher A.
The use of projected autonomy in antenatal shared decision-making for periviable neonates: a qualitative study
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title_short The use of projected autonomy in antenatal shared decision-making for periviable neonates: a qualitative study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10691151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38037157
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