Actions in Support of Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease - United States, 2011-2018

Published on February 7, 2019

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services added critical congenital heart disease (CCHD), which occurs in two of every 1,000 births, to the list of conditions recommended to states for universal newborn screening.

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