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ReviewInternational journal of neonatal screening2020

It All Depends What You Count-The Importance of Definitions in Evaluation of CF Screening Performance.

Natasha Heather, Dianne Webster

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Review in International journal of neonatal screening, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Why Do We Screen Newborn Infants for Cystic Fibrosis?International journal of neonatal screening · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Natasha HeatherNational Newborn Metabolic Screening programme, LabPlus, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland 1148, New Zealand; diannew@adhb.govt.nz.
Dianne WebsterNational Newborn Metabolic Screening programme, LabPlus, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland 1148, New Zealand; diannew@adhb.govt.nz.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Screening metrics are essential to both quality assessment and improvement, but are highly dependent on the way positive tests and cases are counted. In cystic fibrosis (CF) screening, key factors include how mild cases of late-presenting CF and CF screen positive, inconclusive diagnosis (CFSPID) are counted, whether those at prior increased risk of CF are excluded from the screened population, and which aspects of the screening pathway are considered. This paper draws on the New Zealand experience of almost forty years of newborn screening for CF. We demonstrate how different definitions impact the calculation of screening sensitivity. We suggest that, to enable meaningful comparison, CF screening reports should clarify what steps in the screening pathway are included in the assessment, as well as the algorithm used and screening target.

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CFSPIDcystic fibrosisimmunoreactive trypsinmeconium ileusmissed casenewborn screensensitivitytarget disorder

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PMID33073037
PMCPMC7423005

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