R.A 9288 - ARTICLE 2: DEFINITION OF TERMS

Comprehensive Newborn Screening System

Follow-up

Monitoring of a newborn

Health Institutions

Hospitals, health infirmaries, health centers, lying-in centers, puericulture centers (public/private)

Health care practitioners

physicians, nurses, midwives, nursing aides, and traditional birth attendants

Heritable conditions

condition that can result in mental retardation, physical deformity, or death

Mental retardation

Physical deformity

Death

Heritable conditions that can results in:

Newborn

Means a child from the time of complete delivery to 30 days old

Newborn Screening

Process of collecting a few drops of blood from the newborn onto an appropriate collection card and performing biochemical testing for determining if the newborn has a heritable condition

Newborn Screening Center

Facility equipped with a newborn screening laboratory that complies with the standards

Newborn Screening Reference Center

Central facility at the NIH that defines testing and follow up protocols, maintains an external laboratory proficiencies and national database

Parent Education

Various means of providing parents or legal guardians information

Recall

Procedure of locating a newborn

Treatment

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