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A framework to start the debate on neonatal screening policies in the EU: an Expert Opinion Document

Overview of attention for article published in European Journal of Human Genetics, May 2013
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Title
A framework to start the debate on neonatal screening policies in the EU: an Expert Opinion Document
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European Journal of Human Genetics, May 2013
DOI 10.1038/ejhg.2013.90
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Martina C Cornel, Tessel Rigter, Stephanie S Weinreich, Peter Burgard, Georg F Hoffmann, Martin Lindner, J Gerard Loeber, Kathrin Rupp, Domenica Taruscio, Luciano Vittozzi

Abstract

The European Union (EU) Council Recommendation on rare diseases urged the member states to implement national and EU collaborative actions to improve the health care of rare disease patients. Following this recommendation, the European Commission launched a tender on newborn screening (NBS) to report on current practices of laboratory testing, form a network of experts and provide guidance on how to further implement NBS screening in a responsible way, the latter of which was provided in an Expert Opinion document. After consultation of experts from EU member states, (potential) candidate member states and European Free Trade Association countries, in a consensus meeting in June 2011, 70 expert opinions were finalized. They included the need to develop case definitions for all disorders screened for to facilitate assessment and international outcome studies. Decision whether a screening program should be performed can be based on screening criteria updated from the traditional Wilson and Jungner (1968) criteria, relating to disease, treatment, test and cost. The interest of the child should be central in the assessment of pros and cons. A European NBS body should assess evidence on (new) screening candidate disorders. For rare conditions, best level evidence should be used. The health system should ensure treatment to cases diagnosed by screening, controlled and revised by follow-up outcome studies. Screening methodology should aim to avoid unintended findings, such as mild forms and carrier status information, as much as possible. Activities to improve NBS in Europe, such as training and scientific evaluation, could benefit from collaboration at EU level and beyond.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 80 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 22%
Researcher 10 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 9%
Other 5 6%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 19 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 4%
Other 16 20%
Unknown 21 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 May 2018.
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