Forty Years of Heel Prick Screening in the Netherlands Veertig Jaar Hielprikscreening in Nederland

• Main Author: J. Gerard Loeber (auth)
• Other Authors: Carla van El (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2016
• Subjects: Guthrie test; metabolic diseases; Guthrie cards; congenital hypothyroidism; congenital diseases; whole genome sequencing; tandem mass spectrometry; ms/ms; neonatal screening; heel prick; phenylketonuria; newborn screening; dried blood spots
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book aims to provide an overview of developments in the heel prick screening programme in the Netherlands in which similarities with the situation elsewhere in the world, where relevant, will be mentioned. In the Netherlands, the preparations for the national screening programme started in 1964...