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Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes
INTRODUCTION: The global COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary disruption to healthcare services and exposed them to numerous challenges. Newborn screening (NBS) programmes were also affected; however, scarce data exist on the impact of COVID-19 on NBS. METHODS: We conducted an international...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8895417/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35236661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007780 |
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author | Koracin, Vanesa Loeber, J Gerard Mlinaric, Matej Battelino, Tadej Bonham, James R Groselj, Urh |
author_facet | Koracin, Vanesa Loeber, J Gerard Mlinaric, Matej Battelino, Tadej Bonham, James R Groselj, Urh |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The global COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary disruption to healthcare services and exposed them to numerous challenges. Newborn screening (NBS) programmes were also affected; however, scarce data exist on the impact of COVID-19 on NBS. METHODS: We conducted an international survey to assess the global impact of COVID-19 on NBS, with the main aim of gathering the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic from a large and representative number of NBS centres worldwide. RESULTS: The results of our study showed that COVID-19 impacted the NBS programmes, at least partially, in 29 out of 38 responding countries. Majority of the screening centres experienced a broad spectrum of difficulties and most were affected more in the second wave of the pandemic. Delays and unreliability with the postal service as well as flight cancellations caused delays in samples arriving to screening centres and with the provision of laboratory equipment and reagents. The availability of laboratory staff was sometimes reduced due to infection, quarantine or reassignment within the healthcare facility. Sample collection at home, second-tier tests and follow-up were also affected. Social restrictions and interruptions in public transport added to these difficulties. Only a limited number of centres managed to retain a fully functioning NBS programme. CONCLUSION: As the pandemic might continue or could recur in future years, it would be useful to develop guidelines to protect these valuable services. |
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spelling | pubmed-88954172022-03-04 Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes Koracin, Vanesa Loeber, J Gerard Mlinaric, Matej Battelino, Tadej Bonham, James R Groselj, Urh BMJ Glob Health Original Research INTRODUCTION: The global COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary disruption to healthcare services and exposed them to numerous challenges. Newborn screening (NBS) programmes were also affected; however, scarce data exist on the impact of COVID-19 on NBS. METHODS: We conducted an international survey to assess the global impact of COVID-19 on NBS, with the main aim of gathering the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic from a large and representative number of NBS centres worldwide. RESULTS: The results of our study showed that COVID-19 impacted the NBS programmes, at least partially, in 29 out of 38 responding countries. Majority of the screening centres experienced a broad spectrum of difficulties and most were affected more in the second wave of the pandemic. Delays and unreliability with the postal service as well as flight cancellations caused delays in samples arriving to screening centres and with the provision of laboratory equipment and reagents. The availability of laboratory staff was sometimes reduced due to infection, quarantine or reassignment within the healthcare facility. Sample collection at home, second-tier tests and follow-up were also affected. Social restrictions and interruptions in public transport added to these difficulties. Only a limited number of centres managed to retain a fully functioning NBS programme. CONCLUSION: As the pandemic might continue or could recur in future years, it would be useful to develop guidelines to protect these valuable services. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8895417/ /pubmed/35236661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007780 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Koracin, Vanesa Loeber, J Gerard Mlinaric, Matej Battelino, Tadej Bonham, James R Groselj, Urh Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes |
title | Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes |
title_full | Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes |
title_fullStr | Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes |
title_full_unstemmed | Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes |
title_short | Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes |
title_sort | global impact of covid-19 on newborn screening programmes |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8895417/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35236661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007780 |
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