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Newborn screening programs initially used screening criteria based largely on criteria established by JMG Wilson and F. Jungner in 1968. [6] Although not specifically about newborn population screening programs, their publication, Principles and practice of screening for disease proposed ten criteria that screening programs should meet before being used as a public health measure.
From 1993 to 1996, NCHAM directed a National Consortium for Newborn Hearing Screening that resulted in over 100 hospitals in 10 states implementing newborn hearing screening programs. [9] [10] [11] From 1996 to 2000, NCHAM staff worked with newborn hearing screening programs in 35 states and provided direct assistance to over 200 hospitals in ...
Website. www.nann.org. The National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) is a professional organization for neonatal nurses in the United States. NANN was founded in 1984 by five neonatal nurses: Patricia Johnson, Linda Bellig, Tracy Karp, Charles Rait and Donna Lee Loper. Within one year, the association boasted a membership of 3,790.
The researchers compared the results of newborn screening tests for 354 infants who died of SIDS with 1,416 infants who did not. They ran the data through a model to control for external factors ...
A newborn infant undergoes a hearing screening. Universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS), which is part of early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programmes, refer to those services aimed at screening hearing of all newborns, regardless of the presence of a risk factor for hearing loss. UNHS is the first step in the EHDI program ...
President George W. Bush signed the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 (Pub.L.110-204) (NBSSLA) into law on April 24, 2008, a day before DNA Day.The Act amended the Public Health Service Act to establish grant programs concerning newborn screening education and outreach, as parents are often unaware that newborn screening takes place and the number and types of screening varies across ...
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) > 1 in 5,000. Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) > 1 in 5,000. Biotinidase deficiency (BIOT) > 1 in 75,000. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) > 1 in 25,000. Classical galactosemia (GALT) > 1 in 50,000. Newborn screening by other methods than blood testing. Congenital deafness (HEAR) > 1 in 5,000.