"Neonatal Screening" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The identification of selected parameters in newborn infants by various tests, examinations, or other procedures. Screening may be performed by clinical or laboratory measures. A screening test is designed to sort out healthy neonates (INFANT, NEWBORN) from those not well, but the screening test is not intended as a diagnostic device, rather instead as epidemiologic.
- Neonatal Screening
- Neonatal Screenings
- Screening, Neonatal
- Screenings, Neonatal
- Infant, Newborn, Screening
- Newborn Infant Screening
- Newborn Infant Screenings
- Screening, Newborn Infant
- Screenings, Newborn Infant
- Newborn Screening
- Newborn Screenings
- Screening, Newborn
- Screenings, Newborn
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