Pre-placement screening in international adoption

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 763-766

  Diamond, Gary W ^a,b,e   Senecky, Yehuda ^a,e   Schurr, Daniel ^c,f   Zuckerman, Jay ^a,e   Inbar, Dov ^a,b,e   Eidelman, Arthur ^d,f   Cohen, Herbert J ^b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Development screening; International adoption; On site testing; Pre placement; Special needs

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CLINICAL LABORATORIES; DECISION MAKING; DISEASES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CHILD ADOPTION; NEURODEVELOPMENTAL STATUS; PRE PLACEMENT SCREENING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIARRHEA; EUROPE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; GENETIC SCREENING; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING DISORDER; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFANT; ISRAEL; LABORATORY TEST; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORPHANAGE; PEDIATRICIAN; PNEUMONIA; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECT; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOPTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, INSTITUTIONALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; ORPHANAGES; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344980714     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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