Newborn Screening: Current Status in Alberta, Canada
Newborn screening (NBS) in Alberta is delivered by a number of government and health service entities who work together to provide newborn screening to infants born in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Kitikmeot region of the Nunavut territory. The Alberta panel screens for 21 disorders (1...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7510222 2023-05-15T17:04:24+02:00 Newborn Screening: Current Status in Alberta, Canada De Souza, Andy Wolan, Vanessa Battochio, Angie Christian, Susan Hume, Stacey Johner, Grace Lilley, Margaret Ridsdale, Ross Schnabl, Kareena Tran, Chi Yuen-Jung, Jolene Sosova, Iveta 2019-10-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7510222/ https://doi.org/10.3390/ijns5040037 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7510222/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijns5040037 © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Int J Neonatal Screen Review Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/ijns5040037 2020-10-18T00:18:36Z Newborn screening (NBS) in Alberta is delivered by a number of government and health service entities who work together to provide newborn screening to infants born in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Kitikmeot region of the Nunavut territory. The Alberta panel screens for 21 disorders (16 metabolic, two endocrine, cystic fibrosis, severe combined immunodeficiency, and sickle cell disease). NBS is a standard of care, but is not mandatory. NBS performance is monitored by the Alberta Newborn Metabolic Screening (NMS) Program and NMS Laboratory, who strive for continuous quality improvement. Performance analysis found that over 99% of registered infants in Alberta received a newborn screen and over 98% of these infants received a screen result within 10 days of age. Text Kitikmeot Northwest Territories Nunavut PubMed Central (PMC) Canada Northwest Territories Nunavut Sickle ENVELOPE(-66.783,-66.783,-68.867,-68.867) International Journal of Neonatal Screening 5 4 37 |
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Newborn screening (NBS) in Alberta is delivered by a number of government and health service entities who work together to provide newborn screening to infants born in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Kitikmeot region of the Nunavut territory. The Alberta panel screens for 21 disorders (16 metabolic, two endocrine, cystic fibrosis, severe combined immunodeficiency, and sickle cell disease). NBS is a standard of care, but is not mandatory. NBS performance is monitored by the Alberta Newborn Metabolic Screening (NMS) Program and NMS Laboratory, who strive for continuous quality improvement. Performance analysis found that over 99% of registered infants in Alberta received a newborn screen and over 98% of these infants received a screen result within 10 days of age. |
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