Prospective observations study protocol to investigate cost-effectiveness of various prenatal test strategies after the introduction of noninvasive prenatal testing

• Main Authors: So Yeon Kim (Author), Seung Mi Lee (Author), Jong Kwan Jun (Author), You Jung Han (Author), Min Hyoung Kim (Author), Jae-Yoon Shim (Author), Mi-Young Lee (Author), Soo-young Oh (Author), JoonHo Lee (Author), Soo Hyun Kim (Author), Dong Hyun Cha (Author), Geum Joon Cho (Author), Han-Sung Kwon (Author), Byoung Jae Kim (Author), Mi Hye Park (Author), Hee Young Cho (Author), Hyun Sun Ko (Author), Jeonghoon Ahn (Author), Hyun Mee Ryu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Among the non-invasive screening methods for the identification of fetal aneuploidy, NIPT (non-invasive prenatal testing) shows the highest sensitivity and specificity in high-risk pregnancies. Due to the low false positive rate of NIPT, it is assumed that the implementation of N...