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Assessment of Parental Understanding by Pediatric Residents During Counseling After Newborn Genetic Screening
1 Mar 2008
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate pediatric residents' efforts to assess understanding in discussions about positive newborn screening test results. Newborn screening saves lives, but confusion about false-positive and carrier results often leads to psychosocial problems. DESIGN: Explicit-criteria abstraction of transcripts of encounters with standardized parents of a fictitious infant found to carry cystic fibrosis or...
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