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Carrier screening in the community
Author(s) -
Brock D. J. H.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of inherited metabolic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1573-2665
pISSN - 0141-8955
DOI - 10.1007/bf00710064
Subject(s) - newborn screening , medicine , primary care , cystic fibrosis , medical screening , pediatrics , family medicine , obstetrics
Summary A number of different models of cystic fibrosis (CF) carrier screening have now been tested in pilot trials. Apart from opportunistic and cascade testing (which are strictly speaking not true forms of screening), the major programmes have been directed either to young adults in primary care or to pregnant women in antenatal clinics. Only in the latter form of screening has sufficient data been collected to allow conclusions to be reached on the optimum mode of delivery. It seems very probable that when CF carrier screening passes into routine service, it will be the antenatal couple model that is used.