Report of a working party of the standing medical advisory committee on sickle cell, thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies.

  • Great Britain. Standing Medical Advisory Committee.
Date:
1993
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Credit: Report of a working party of the standing medical advisory committee on sickle cell, thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    What are the objectives of screening? Preconceptional Antenatal Neonatal their partners information about their genetic status, so that they can make informed choices about possible future pregnancies (SCD & thalassaemia) to give women and their partners information about their genetic status, so that they can make an informed choice about whether to have prenatal diagnosis (SCD & thalassaemia) identification of trait with SCD, so that they can be enrolled into a programme of systematic follow-up and care selective selective if antenatal population includes < 15% ethnic minorities at risk of SCD universal if antenatal population includes > 15% ethnic minorities at risk of SCD selective if antenatal population includes < 15% ethnic minorities at risk of SCD universal if antenatal population includes > 15% ethnic minorities at risk of SCD | selective universal mean cell haemoglobin (MCH) Most thalassaemia major detected but not thalassaemia carriers ff