Neonatal screening

Introduction: Neonatal screening

Description of Neonatal screening

Neonatal screening: Screening tests done on newborn babies to detect neonatal diseases such as phenylketonuria.

Neonatal screening: testing of newborns for the detection of preventable or curable disease or for diagnosis of genetic disease.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Neonatal screening: 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.
Source: MeSH 2007

Neonatal screening: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Neonatal screening:

• Neonatal
• Screening

Terms associated with Neonatal screening:

Terms Similar to Neonatal screening:

• Infant, Newborn, Screening
• Newborn Infant Screening

Source - MeSH 2007

Broader terms for Neonatal screening

• Mass Screening
• Laboratory Techniques and Procedures

Source - MeSH 2007

Hierarchical classifications of Neonatal screening

The following list attempts to classify Neonatal screening into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Diagnosis
  • Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
    • Mass Screening
      • Neonatal Screening

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Diagnosis
  • Laboratory Techniques and Procedures
    • Neonatal Screening

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Investigative Techniques
  • Epidemiologic Methods
    • Data Collection
      • Health Surveys
        • Mass Screening
          • Neonatal Screening

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Environment and Public Health
  • Public Health
    • Epidemiologic Methods
      • Data Collection
        • Health Surveys
          • Mass Screening
            • Neonatal Screening

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Environment and Public Health
  • Public Health
    • Public Health Practice
      • Mass Screening
        • Neonatal Screening

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