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Single Gene
Disorders and Disability (SGDD) |
CDC is working with several partners to gather information on ways to
improve screening and diagnosis for DBMD.
Information gathered through both of these programs will help us understand:
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The number of parents who want
the screening test for their sons |
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Reasons why parents do or do
not want screening |
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Parents’ understanding of the
screening test |
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Problems that occur when
parents get a false-positive result |
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Families’ experiences with the
screening programs |
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Health care providers’ opinions
about the screening programs |
As part of these projects, the CDC
Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program is developing a program
to monitor the quality of the testing in labs around the world that
are involved in newborn or infant screening for DMD. Quality control
testing materials are sent to the laboratories to ensure that their
screening tests are accurate.
Principal investigator for this
study: Derek S. Brown, PhD Research Economist Public Health Economics Program RTI International 3040 Cornwallis Road, Hobbs 112 P.O. Box 12194 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194
Presentations
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of
the authors and do not necessarily represent the views
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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Date: September 1, 2006
Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities
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