A State Health Department Is Planning to Redesign Its Newborn

question 2

Multiple Choice

A state health department is planning to redesign its newborn screening program.The nurse charged with heading this initiative would identify which concerns about using the Wilson and Jungner Classic Screening Criteria to guide this work?

• A)Interpretation of what is an "important health problem" is individual and therefore variable.
• B)The acceptability of tests to the population is variable.
• C)The issue of cost containment is not as important as it was when these criteria were developed.
• D)Today's testing may have widespread implications.
• E)Screening tests are developing very rapidly.

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