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Effects of immediate telephone follow-up with providers on sweat chloride test timing after cystic fibrosis newborn screening identifies a single mutation.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Mar 2013
La Pean Alison, Farrell Michael H, Eskra Kerry L, Farrell Philip M
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OBJECTIVE: To assess whether reporting "possible cystic fibrosis (CF)" newborn screening (NBS) results via fax plus simultaneous telephone contact with primary care providers (PCPs) versus fax alone influenced 3 outcomes: undergoing a sweat chloride test, age at sweat chloride testing, and undergoing sweat testing before age 8 weeks. STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective cohort comparison of infants born in...
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