Newborn urine screening programme in the province of Quebec: An update of 30 years' experience

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 393-402

  Auray Blais, C ^a   Giguere R ^a   Lemieux, B ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID;

ACIDURIA; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FILTER; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INHERITANCE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATIENT COUNSELING; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUEBEC; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS;

EID: 0042420653     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025115405074     Document Type: Article

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