Medicolegal activity in obstetrical and gynaecological ultrasound

Woodrow, N.L.; de Crespigny, L.J.; Gillies, R.H.

Medical Journal of Australia 171(3): 147-150

1999


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-729X
PMID: 10474608
Document Number: 506521
We surveyed obstetricians who are members of the Australian Association of Obstetrical and Gynaecological Ultrasonologists for details of actions in which they had been asked to give an expert opinion between 1993 and 1998. We uncovered 50 cases, most of which involved missed fetal anomalies. Our findings suggest there is considerable medicolegal activity in obstetrical and gynaecological ultrasound in Australia.

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