newborn Flashcards
It is a type of screening tested upon the newborn in order to detect metabolic
disorders.
A
Which agency shall establish the Advisory committee for newborn screening
doh
Which agency shall develop the implementing rules and regulations to be coordinated
with the DILG
doh
This type of center should have recall/follow up programs for infants found positive
Newborn Screening Center
Year the Newborn Screening Act was approve
2004
The specimen that they use in Newborn Screening Center
C Blood from the heel
What Article number has all final provision sections of the
RA 9288
Article 5
The last section of the act, also known as Effectivit
Section 19
Number of RA 9288 sections in total
19 section
Section number for the Repealing Clause
Section 17
Section number for the Separability
Section 18
Presidents that signed the approval for the RA 9288
Presidents Macapagal-Arroyo
A procedure for locating a newborn with a possible
heritable condition for purposes of providing the
newborn with appropriate laboratory to confirm the
disorder/disease
Recall
Monitoring of a newborn with a heritable condition
for the purpose of ensuring that the newborn patient
complies fully with the medicine of dietary
prescriptions
Follow up
Facility equipped with a newborn screening
laboratory that complies with the standards
established by the NIH and provides all required
laboratory tests and recall/follow-up program
Newborn Screening Center
Central facility at the NIH that confirms testing and
follow-up protocols, maintains an external laboratory
proficiency testing program, and oversees the
national testing database, training activities, and
content of educational materials.
Newborn Screening Reference
Center
. What does “Follow-up” mean under this Act
Monitoring a newborn’s compliance with medical or dietary prescription
What is the definition of “Newborn Screening Center” according to this Act?
A facility equipped with a newborn screening laboratory
What does “Heritable condition” refer to under this Act?
A condition that can result in mental retardation, physical deformity, or death
Who are considered “Healthcare practitioners” as defined in this Act
Physicians and nurses, midwives, nursing aides and traditional birth attendants
What is the role of the “Newborn Screening Reference Center” according to this Act?
C) Maintaining an external laboratory proficiency testing program
means a newborn screening system that includes education of relevant
stakeholders, tracking and confirmatory testing, and clinical evaluation of test results
Comprehensive Newborn Screening System
efers to the monitoring of a newborn with a heritable condition to ensure
compliance with medicine or dietary prescriptions.
Follow-up
_ include hospitals, health centers, and facilities with obstetrical and pediatric
services, whether public or private
Health institutions
encompasses physicians, nurses, midwives, nursing aides, and traditional birth
attendants.
Healthcare practitioner
s any condition that can result in mental retardation, physical deformity, or death if
left undetected and untreated, and it is usually inherited from the genes of the newborn’s
biological parents.
Heritable condition
The monitoring of a newborn with a heritable condition for the purpose of ensuring that
the newborn patient complies fully with the medicine or dietary prescriptions.”
Follow-up
NIH
National
Institute of
Health
a child from the time of complete delivery to 30 days old
Newborn
“physicians, nurses, midwives, nursing aides, and traditional birth attendants.”
Healthcare
Practitioner
“the provision of prompt, appropriate, and adequate medicine, medical, and surgical
management or dietary prescription to a newborn for purposes of treating or mitigating
the adverse health consequences of a heritable condition.”
treatment
Newborn Screening Act is also known as C
C. RA 9288
Meaning of NIH
National Institute of Health
When was the Newborn Screening Act created?
April 7, 2004
The Philippine president who signed the approval of Newborn Screening Act.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Meaning of PHIC
C. Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
.General Provisions
Article 1
Implementation
Article 3
.Definition of Terms
Article 2
.Newborn Screen
. Article 4
.Final Provisions
Article 5
It means physicians, nurses, midwives, nursing aides and traditional birth attendants
Answer: Healthcare practitioners
Newborn means a child from the time of complete delivery to
Answer: 30 days old
.Newborn screening shall be performed after ______ but not later than ______ days.
Answer: 24 hours, 3 days
means providing parents or legal guardians information about newborn screening.
Answer: Parent Education
A parent or legal guardian may refuse testing on the grounds of beliefs
Answer: Refusal to be tested
- The lead agency to implement the Newborn Screening Act of 2004.
doh
The principal repository of technical information relating to newborn screening standards
and practices.
. NIH NEWBORN SCREENING REFERENCE CENTER
the representatives appointed by the secretary of health are appointed for a term lasting
how many years?
3
The DOH shall collaborate with them for the implementation of the Newborn Screening
Program in local government units
dilg
The number of representatives appointed by the Secretary of Health in the advisory
committee
3
Database
. Section 15
Lead Agency
Section 10
Advisory Committee on Newborn
Screening
Section 11
Quality Assurance
Section 14
Newborn Screening Fees
Section 16
The ___________ shall maintain a national database of patients tested. .
ANSWER: NIH
NEWBORN SCREENING REFERENCE CENTER
The Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening shall meet _______.
ANSWER:
TWICE A YEAR
This department shall serve as the lead agency to implement the Newborn Screening
Act of 2004. A
NSWER: DOH
The Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening has _____ members. ANSWER:
8
They shall act as the chairman of the Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening.
ANSWER: SECRETARY OF HEALTh
