Universal state newborn screening programs can reduce health disparities

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-8

  Brosco, Jeffrey P ^a   Grosse, Scott D ^b   Ross, Lainie Friedman ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VITAMIN K GROUP;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EDITORIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INCOME; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SCREENING; PHENYLKETONURIA; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; NEWBORN; PHENYLKETONURIAS; RISK FACTOR; UTILIZATION;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; NEONATAL SCREENING; PHENYLKETONURIAS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY;

EID: 84925029529     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.2465     Document Type: Editorial

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