Metabolic screening in the NICU population: a proposal for change.
To be an effective preventive pediatric and public health strategy, newborn screening for hereditary metabolic disorders should include 100% of all neonates as the target population. Delaying screening for critically-ill and premature infants places the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) population at high risk for developing devastating side effects of untreated or late-treated metabolic diseases. A clinical nursing project was undertaken in The Johns Hopkins Hospital NICU to develop specific metabolic screening criteria for this special population.
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D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008661:Metabolism, Inborn Errors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D015997:Neonatal Screening / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011379:Prognosis