Fetal MRI: Patient Expectations, Clinical Experience and Decision-Making
PI: Judy Illes, Ph.D.
PROJECT DATES: 9/1/2002-8/31/2003
FUNDER: The Children's Health Initiative
Through the combined efforts of an interdisciplinary group of researchers in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Radiology, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Health Research Policy, we are conducting a pilot study of how fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is being diffused and used today in the context of its clinical impact on the patient and on patient management. The significance of this work is grounded in the increasing use of in utero MRI and the vast amount of new information that this imaging modality can provide about the status of the fetal CNS, but the paradoxically few guidelines that exist for utilizing that information and for counseling patients.
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