Accepting or declining the offer of prenatal screening for congenital defects: test uptake and women's reasons.

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Published in Prenat Diagn on January 01, 2005

Authors

Matthijs van den Berg1, Danielle R M Timmermans, Johanna H Kleinveld, Elisa Garcia, John M G van Vugt, Gerrit van der Wal

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands. m.vandenberg@vumc.nl

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