The Need for Quality Improvement in Sweat Testing Infants after Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis

The Journal of Pediatrics - Tập 157 - Trang 1035-1037 - 2010
Vicky A. LeGrys1, Susanna A. McColley2, Zhanhai Li3, Philip M. Farrell4
1School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Laboratory Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL; and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago IL
3Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
4Department of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

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