Published online June 1, 2007
PEDIATRICS Vol. 119 No. 6 June 2007, pp. 1267-1269 (doi:10.1542/peds.2007-0916)
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Noninitiation or Withdrawal of Intensive Care for High-Risk Newborns: In Reply

Edward F. Bell, MD
Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, IA 52242

Daniel G. Batton, MD
Department of Pediatrics
William Beaumont Hospital
Royal Oak, MI 48073

Ann R. Stark, MD On behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Fetus and Newborn
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX 77030

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The members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Fetus and Newborn thank Mr Whittall and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics for their correspondence and for calling attention to the recent Nuffield report, "Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine: Ethical Issues."1 As Mr Whittall pointed out, the Nuffield report provides a practical framework to guide decisions based on gestational age for infants born before 25 weeks’ gestation. . . . [Full Text of this Article]