Irish public would prefer legislation to protect Guthrie card archive rather than destroy it

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7923, 2013, Pages

  Allen, John ^a   McCarthy, Peter ^b   Dempsey, Eugene M ^a   Hourihane, Jonathan O ^a,c  

^a University College Cork   (Ireland)

^b Ireland   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GUTHRIE CARD; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IRELAND; LETTER; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEWBORN SCREENING; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL SECURITY;

EID: 84883792330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f5232     Document Type: Letter

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