International Journal of Neonatal Screening (Sep 2024)

Comment on Dijkstra et al. A False-Negative Newborn Screen for Tyrosinemia Type 1—Need for Re-Evaluation of Newborn Screening with Succinylacetone. <i>Int. J. Neonatal Screen.</i> 2023, <i>9</i>, 66

  • Marelle J. Bouva,
  • Rose E. Maase,
  • Ruurd M. van Elburg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijns10040065
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
p. 65

Abstract

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The assessment of newborn screening (NBS) algorithms’ performance to ensure quality improvements is a continuous process: false-positive referrals can enable optimisations in the shorter term, but false-negative referrals are often only discovered many years after the screening has taken place [...]

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