title: Pregnancy and birth risk factors for intellectual disability in South Australia.
abstract: It is generally accepted that developmental handicaps can often be minimized through early detection and intervention. For this reason, it is normal practice in many hospitals to follow-up and screen infants who present at birth with established risk factors. Clinical judgement will always be important when selecting children for follow-up. However, as hospital data systems improve, automated systems could be developed for listing children potentially "at risk". Where initial clinical decisions not to follow-up individual children prove to be at odds with this automated output, the individual child could be re-assessed clinically. This process could increase the level of quality control. An initial risk-factor model for intellectual disability has been developed, based on the South Australian Perinatal Statistics Collection, for use in this context.
authors: Epidemiology Branch, South Australian Health Commission, Adelaide Citi Centre.
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authors: Jonas
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authors: Roder
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authors: Esterman
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authors: Macharper
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authors: Chan
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007360:Intelligence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011897:Random Allocation; D012307:Risk Factors