Equivocal Court Cardiotocography Weighting in Cerebral Palsy Litigation
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Cerebral Palsy Litigation
The cardinal driver of cerebral palsy litigation is electronic fetal monitoring, which has continued unabated for 40 years. Electronic fetal monitoring, however, is based on 19th-century childbirth myths, a virtually nonexistent scientific foundation, and has a false positive rate exceeding 99%. It has not affected the incidence of cerebral palsy. Electronic fetal monitoring has, however, incre...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Forensic Medicine and Legal Affairs
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2472-3800
DOI: 10.19104/jfml.2016.107