Clinical findings associated with homozygous sickle cell disease in the Barbadian population - Do we need a national SCD registry?

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Quimby, Kim R ^a   Moe, Stephen ^b   Sealy, Ian ^b   Nicholls, Christopher ^b   Hambleton, Ian R ^a   Landis, R Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Barbados)

Author keywords

Barbados; Central monitoring; Comprehensive care; Jamaica; Sickle cell disease; Universal screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALBUMINURIA; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LEG ULCER; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PILOT STUDY; REGISTER; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALBUMINURIA; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BARBADOS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; LEG ULCER; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEONATAL SCREENING; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897671441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-102     Document Type: Article

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