Challenges of Uncertainty in Prenatal Decision-Making: Skeletal Dysplasias

Abstract

When skeletal dysplasias are suspected in the prenatal period, investigation, counseling, and management become especially challenging. By better understanding the complex forces at play and parental values, prenatal health care providers may improve the ways in which they counsel patients to improve the decision-making process under conditions of significant uncertainty, including in cases of prenatally suspected skeletal dysplasia.

Keywords: Decision-Making; Ethics; Genetic Counseling; Medical; Prenatal Diagnosis; Risk Assessment.