Policy issues and stakeholder concerns regarding the storage and use of residual newborn dried blood samples for research

Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-12

  Rothwell, Erin ^a   Anderson, Rebecca ^a   Botkin, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Newborn screening; Public health; Residual biospecimens

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD SAMPLING; ETHICS; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PARENTAL CONSENT; POLICY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FOCUS GROUPS; GENETIC RESEARCH; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PARENTAL CONSENT; PUBLIC POLICY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954055058     PISSN: 15271544     EISSN: 15527468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527154410365563     Document Type: Article

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