Laboratory Screening for Children Entering Foster Care

To determine the prevalence of medical illness detected by laboratory screening in children entering foster care in a single, urban county. All children entering foster care in a single county in Ohio were seen at a consultation foster care clinic and had laboratory screening, including testing for...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 2017-12, Vol.140 (6), p.1
Main Authors: Greiner, Mary V, Beal, Sarah J, Nause, Katie, Staat, Mary Allen, Dexheimer, Judith W, Scribano, Philip V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Anemia - epidemiology
Care and treatment
Child
Child, Foster - statistics & numerical data
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Chronic diseases
Communicable diseases
Communicable Diseases - epidemiology
Company business management
Consultation
Female
Foster care
Foster home care
Hemoglobin
Hemoglobins - analysis
Hepatitis
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Humans
Infant
Infectious diseases
Lead - blood
Lead Poisoning - epidemiology
Male
Management
Mass Screening - statistics & numerical data
Medical screening
Ohio - epidemiology
Pediatrics
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Risk factors
Syphilis
Testing
Tuberculosis
Viruses
Young Adult
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Summary:To determine the prevalence of medical illness detected by laboratory screening in children entering foster care in a single, urban county. All children entering foster care in a single county in Ohio were seen at a consultation foster care clinic and had laboratory screening, including testing for infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, and tuberculosis as well as for hemoglobin and lead levels. Over a 3-year period (2012-2015), laboratory screening was performed on 1977 subjects entering foster care in a consultative foster care clinic. The prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, and tuberculosis were all found to be
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.2016-3778