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PEDIATRICS Vol. 108 No. 3 September 2001, pp. 821

The Importance of Newborn Screening

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To the Editor.

The commentary by Howse and Katz1 commendably calls for equity in access to newborn screening tests and uniform quality of those tests. However, they miss the mark in downplaying economic and cost-benefit considerations and in stating that "a test (even for a rare disease)---as long [as] its early discovery makes a difference to the child---must be conducted for every newborn." Such an uncritical approach would be bad public policy and potentially bad for children . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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