Association of US State Implementation of Newborn Screening Policies for Critical Congenital Heart Disease With Early Infant Cardiac Deaths.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In 2011, critical congenital heart disease was added to the US Recommended Uniform Screening Panel for newborns, but whether state implementation of screening policies has been associated with infant death rates is unknown.

Objective

To assess whether there was an association between implementation of state newborn screening policies for critical congenital heart disease and infant death rates.

Design, setting, and participants

Observational study with group-level analyses. A difference-in-differences analysis was conducted using the National Center for Health Statistics' period linked birth/infant death data set files for 2007-2013 for 26 546 503 US births through June 30, 2013, aggregated by month and state of birth.

Exposures

State policies were c

SUBMITTER: Abouk R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770276 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature