(M) L3.2: RA 9288 - Newborn Screening Act of 2004 Flashcards
What is the full title of RA 9288?
An Act Promulgating a Comprehensive Policy and a National System for Ensuring Newborn Screening
The Act ensures the rights of children to _______ and full and healthy ________ as normal individuals
Survival; Development
The state shall institutionalize a national newborn screening system that is what?
Clue: 3 adjectives
- Comprehensive
- Integrative
- Sustainable
The state shall facilitate collaboration among who at the national and local levels?
Government and non-government agencies
The newborn screening system shall ensure that every baby born in the Philippines will be spared from heritable conditions that can lead to what?
Mental retardation and death
Objectives of RA 9288:
To ensure that every newborn has access to newborn screening for certain heritable conditions that can result in ________ if left undetected and untreated
Mental retardation, serious health complications, or death
Objectives of RA 9288:
To establish and integrate a sustainable newborn screening system within the ________
Public health delivery system
Objectives of RA 9288:
To ensure that all ________ are aware of the advantages of newborn screening and of their respective responsibilities in offering newborns the opportunity to undergo it
Health practitioners
Objectives of RA 9288:
To ensure that parents recognize their responsibility in promoting their child’s right to health and full development, within the context of responsible parenthood, by protecting their child from preventable causes of ________ through newborn screening
Disability and Death
What section talks about the objectives of RA 9288?
Section 3
Definition of Terms:
A system that includes the ff.:
- education of relevant stakeholders
- collection and biochemical screening of blood samples from newborns
- tracking and confirmatory testing to ensure accuracy
- clinical evaluation and biochemical/medical confirmation of test results
- drug and medical/surgical management
- evaluation activities to address heritable conditions
- evaluation activities to assess long-term outcomes
- patient compliance and quality assurance
Comprehensive Newborn Screening System
Definition of Terms:
Monitoring of a newborn with a heritable condition for the purpose of ensuring that they fully comply with the medicine or dietary prescriptions
Follow-up
Follow-ups for newborns ensure that the patient fully complies with the medicine or _________
Dietary prescriptions
Definition of Terms:
Means hospitals, health infirmaries, health centers, lying-in centers, or puericulture centers with obstetrical and pediatric services whether public or private
Health institutions
T or F: Health institutions refer to only public hospitals, health infirmaries, health centers, lying-in centers, or puericulture centers with obstetrical and pediatric services
False (private as well)
Definition of Terms:
Means physicians, nurses, midwives, nursing aides, and traditional birth attendees
Healthcare practitioner
T or F: Healthcare practitioners refer to doctors and nurses in the hospital only
False (includes midwives, nursing aides, and traditional birth attendants)
Definition of Terms:
Refers to any condition that can result to mental retardation, physical deformity, or death if left undetected and untreated and which is usually inherited from the genes of either or both parents
Heritable condition
T or F: Heritable conditions result to mental deformity and physical retardation
False (mental retardation and physical deformity)
T or F: Heritable conditions can come from either or both parents
True
T or F: Heritable conditions have only been found to come from the mothers
False (can be either or both parents)
What does NIH mean?
National Institute of Health
It is referred to as a “newborn” from the time of complete delivery to how many days old?
30 days
Definition of Terms:
The process of collecting a few drops of blood from the newborn onto an appropriate collection card and performing biochemical testing for the determination of a heritable condition
Newborn Screening
Definition of Terms:
A facility equipped with a NBS laboratory that complies with the standards established by the NIH and provides all required lab tests and recall/follow-up programs for newborns with heritable conditions
Newborn Screening Center
Definition of Terms:
Refers to the central facility at the NIH that defines testing and follow-up protocols, maintains an external laboratory proficiency testing program, oversees the national testing database and case registries, assists in training activities in all aspects of the program, oversees content of educational materials, and acts as the Secretariat of the Advisory Committee on NBS
NBS Reference Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
A facility equipped with a NBS laboratory
NBS Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
Complies with the standards established by the NIH
NBS Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
Provides all required lab tests and recall/follow-up programs for newborns with heritable conditions
NBS Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
The central facility at the NIH that defines testing and follow-up protocols
NBS Reference Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
Maintains an external laboratory proficiency testing program
NBS Reference Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
Oversees the national testing database and case registries
NBS Reference Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
Assists in training activities in all aspects of the program
NBS Reference Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
Oversees content of educational materials
NBS Reference Center
NBS Center or NBS Reference Center (lifted from the manual)?
Acts as the Secretariat of the Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening
NBS Reference Center
The NBS Reference Center acts as the _________ on Newborn Screening
Secretariat of the Advisory Committee
Definition of Terms:
The various means of providing the parents/legal guardians information about newborn screening
Parent Education
Definition of Terms:
Procedure for locating a newborn with a possible heritable condition for purposes of providing them with appropriate laboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis and provide treatment
Recall
Recall is a procedure that locates a newborn with a possible _________
Heritable condition
Definition of Terms:
The provision of prompt, appropriate, and adequate medicine; medical, and surgical management or dietary prescription for the purpose of treating or mitigating adverse health consequences of the heritable condition
Treatment
It is imperative to health practitioners to inform the soon to be parents the importance of what?
Newborn Screening
T or F: Any health practitioner who delivers, or assists in the delivery, of a newborn in the Philippines shall inform the parents/legal guardians of the availability, nature, and benefits of newborn screening after delivery
False (prior to delivery)
T or F: The health practitioner who delivered the newborn is the only one authorized to inform the parents/legal guardians of the NBS
False (also those who have assisted)
Appropriate notification and education regarding the obligation to inform the parents/guardians about NBS shall be the responsibility of what?
DOH
What section states that “appropriate notification and education regarding the obligation to inform the parents/guardians about NBS shall be the responsibility of DOH”?
Section 5
In the case of a complete delivery, when should the NBS be performed?
After 24 hours of life but not later than 3 days from delivery date
T or F: Babies classified under complete delivery shall undergo NBS within the first 24 hours of life
False (AFTER 24 hours)