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Investigative Techniques > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Neonatal Screening
Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Neonatal Screening
... > Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Preventive Health Services > Diagnostic Services > Mass Screening > Neonatal Screening
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Mass Screening > Neonatal Screening
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Mass Screening > Neonatal Screening
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Mass Screening > Neonatal Screening
Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Mass Screening > Neonatal Screening
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... > Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms > Data Collection > Surveys and Questionnaires > Health Surveys > Mass Screening > Neonatal Screening
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms > Data Collection > Surveys and Questionnaires > Health Surveys > Mass Screening > Neonatal Screening

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Neonatal Screening  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Infant, Newborn, Screening
  • Newborn Infant Screening
  • Newborn Infant Screenings
  • Newborn Screening
  • Newborn Screenings
  • Screening, Newborn
  • Screening, Newborn Infant
  • Screenings, Newborn
  • Screenings, Newborn Infant

Note

  • check tag INFANT, NEWBORN

Scope note

  • The identification of selected parameters in newborn infants by various tests, examinations, or other procedures. Screening may be performed by clinical or laboratory measures. A screening test is designed to sort out healthy neonates (INFANT, NEWBORN) from those not well, but the screening test is not intended as a diagnostic device, rather instead as epidemiologic.

History note

  • 90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015997

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