Newborn Hearing Screening: Making the Case for National Minimum Standards

Making the case for objective performanc

Making the case for objective performance metrics in newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry

✍ Rinaldo, Piero ;Zafari, Saba ;Tortorelli, Silvia ;Matern, Dietrich 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 256 KB

## Abstract The expansion of newborn screening programs to include multiplex testing by tandem mass spectrometry requires understanding and close monitoring of performance metrics. This is not done consistently because of lack of defined targets, and interlaboratory comparison is almost nonexistent