Clinics in Mother and Child Health

Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York, New York, USA

Biography

Dr. Erin M. Bell, is the Professor in School of Public Health at University at Albany, Dr. Bell most recently served as co-Principal Investigator of the Upstate KIDS study, a cohort study of over 6000 infants designed to examine risk factors for development differences, Autism and additional growth and developmental outcomes. She is particularly interested in the relationship between social factors and environmental exposures and their combined impact on child development

Publications

• Research Article   
  Can we Improve the Perinatal Outcomes and Early Postnatal Survival of Fetuses with Congenital Heart Disease by Initiating Specialized Prenatal Consultation Service?
  Author(s): Yanji Qu, Jimei Chen, Fengzhen Han, Shao Lin, Erin M. Bell, Wei Pan, Teresa Huang, Yanqiu Ou, Shusheng Wen, Jinzhuang Mai, Zhiqiang Nie, Xiangmin Gao, Yong Wu, Emily Lipton, Richard G. Ohye, Jian Zhuang and Xiaoqing Liu*
  
  Background: Requirements of specialized prenatal consultation after prenatal diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is increasing, but its impact is not clear. This study was to introduce such a specialized prenatal consultation service and assess its impact on outcomes of CHD fetuses. Methods: We initiated specialized prenatal consultation in a referral tertiary cardiac center in southern China in 2013. A multidisciplinary team serves as consultants in this service and is especially responsible by two pediatric cardiologists in regular outpatient clinics. We included CHD fetuses diagnosed from 2011 to 2015 consecutively. They were divided into before (2011-2013) and after (2014-2015) specialized prenatal consultation groups and their perinatal outcomes, delivery location and early postnatal survival were compared. Risk factors for term.. View more»
  

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