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This chapter discusses quality assurance (QA) for newborn screening programs. Newborn screening is the largest genetic testing effort for newborns in the . It describes the Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program (NSQAP) at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia, which provides services for laboratories that use specimens of driedblood spots (DBSs) to perform newborn screening tests. The mission of this program is to improve interlaboratory comparability and to work toward interlaboratory standardization.

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Children with this disease have few symptoms early on, but the metabolic abnormality can be detected in the first few days of life by testing either the urine or the blood. In Legal Liability and Quality Assurance in Newborn Screening, ed.

7 Newborn Screening In America: Problems and Policies While the push for uniformity seems relatively benign, there are several problems with the methodology employed by ACMG to generate its uniform panel. The ACMG abandoned the traditional criteria for determining the appropriateness of screening for a particular condition, as laid out by James Wilson and Gunnar Jungner and adopted by the World Health Organization in Although these ten criteria were not specifically developed for newborn screening, they are still widely cited in articles about newborn screening, even today.

Chairman, Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Quality Control Subcommittee Patricia R. Hunt, . Chairman, Newborn Screening Molecular Subcommittee Rachel Lee, P. and Joseph Orsini, P. Atlanta, GA 30341-3724 Phone (770) 488-4582, [email protected] gov E-mail: [email protected]

In countries where newborn hearing screening is conducted it is assumed that the .

In countries where newborn hearing screening is conducted it is assumed that the vast percentage of babies born deaf can be helped and their futures immeasurably improved. Quality assurance issues in particular are vital to successful newborn and infant hearing screening and related interventions – in some settings it is estimated that the poor training and performance of screeners renders up to 80% of screening useless.