Prenatal laboratory screening.
Expectations of the clinician are evolving in obstetric practice in regard to standards of performance, cost effectiveness, and outcomes for mother and child. Prenatal laboratory screening is shown to be an area where new developments are evident. The purpose of this article is to update information found in standard obstetrics textbooks.
Rathbun
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Regional Academic Health Center, Odessa, Texas.
Perez
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Barry
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D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States