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Article American Academy of Nursing on Policy
Policy brief: Improve coverage of newborn genetic screening to include the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel and newborn screening registry
Nursing Outlook
Vol. 65Issue 4p480–484Published online: May 8, 2017
- Angela Starkweather
- Bernice Coleman
- Veronica Barcelona de Mendoza
- Mei Fu
- Jacquelyn Taylor
- Wendy Henderson
- and others
Cited in Scopus: 6
A major goal of newborn screening is to reduce morbidity and mortality in infants and children by identifying heritable conditions in which early treatment may improve a child's long-term health and survival. However, the number and type of heritable disorders included in newborn screening currently vary from state to state. Expert recommendations to screen for 34 core conditions and report on 26 secondary conditions were issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This panel, known as the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP), has not been adopted by all states thereby creating a geographic disparity in opportunities to receive timely intervention for potentially life-threatening heritable conditions.