Quality assessment of a prenatal screening program

Early Human Development

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Knight, George J ^a  

^a FOUNDATION FOR BLOOD RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Down's syndrome; Prenatal screening; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOWN SYNDROME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MONITORING; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PRENATAL SCREENING; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; DOWN SYNDROME; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0030512563     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(96)01820-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. Knight, G.J. and Palomaki, G.E. (1994): Epidemiologic monitoring and quality control of prenatal screening. In: Proceedings of the UK NEQAS Endocrinology Meeting, Edinburgh UK, 11-14 April 1994, 120 p. Editors: C.M. Sturgeon, J. Seth, J.G. Middle and S.P. Halloran. Assoc. Clin. Biochem., London.
2. Report of a workshop by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland (1980): The quality control of α-fetoprotein reagents and assay for the antenatal and diagnosis of open neural tube defects. Clin. Chim. Acta., 105, 9.
3. Baumgarten, A. (1986): Racial difference and biological significance of maternal serum α-fetoprotein. Lancet, ii, 573.
4. Knight, G.J., Palomaki, G.E. and Haddow, J.E. (1986): Maternal serum α-fetoprotein: a problem with a test kit. N. Engl. J. Med., 314, 516.
5. Haddow, J.E., Palomaki, G.E., Knight, G.J., Cunningham, G.C., Lustig, M.S. and Boyd, P.A. (1994): Reducing the need for amniocentesis on women age 35 years and older by use of serum screening markers. N. Engl. J. Med., 330, 1114.
6. Haddow, J.E., Palomaki, G.E., Knight, G.J., Williams, J., Pulkkinen, A., Canick, J.A., Saller, D.N. and Bowers, G.B. (1992): Prenatal screening for Down's syndrome with use of maternal serum markers. N. Engl. J. Med., 327, 588.