Lead Screening. Appendix MCovered Familiesand Children (CFC) populationPage 9Measure:The percentageof one and twoyear oldswho received ablood lead screeningby age group. Sample 1 Lead Screening.Beginning withcontract yearSFY 2005, there will no longer be aperformance standardoraction requiredfor the...
Context: Underscreening and problematic repeat lead testing in children. Objective: Identify proportion of underscreening for elevated blood-lead levels in children. For children who receive a lead test, measure the level of problematic repeat lead tests, defined as those with a high probability of...
Follow-up testing after an abnormal screening blood lead level is a key component of lead poisoning prevention. To measure the proportion of children with... Kemper,R Alex - 《Jama》 被引量: 0发表: 2005年 Trends in blood lead levels and blood lead testing among US children aged 1 to 5...
Although childhood lead screening is an important public health tool, an RAO based on child blood lead levels raises ethical concerns: public health efforts that are more reactive than preventive, a blood lead standard (10 lg/dL) that may not be fully protective, the use of a measure whose ...
less than 6% of eligible children had lead test results reported to the county health department—the same rate as in other, wealthier census tracts. Without more screening, and more work to eliminate lead exposure in the communities most at risk, this problem won't be solved for a long tim...
Therefore, children’s health care and medical screening campaigns need to be designed to improve family’s fundamental knowledge of lead hazards, associated health effects, and prevention in the NVC of China. Keywords: lead exposures; children’s blood lead; valley cites; family; behaviors and ...
Regression Results for Identifying Racial Disparities in (A) Lead Screening and (B) Exposure eTable 6. Estimated Lead Exposure and Relative Blood Lead Level Increase Attributable to Lead-Contaminated Drinking Water Among Children Under 6-Years-Old, Stratified by Race; Uses Unadjusted Exposure-Response...
Maternal RBC lead levels and plasma folate levels were measured in samples obtained 24 to 72 hours after delivery; child whole-blood lead level was obtained from the first pediatric lead screening. Results The mean (SD) age of mothers and children was 28.6 (6.5) years and 8.1 (3.1) years,...
Applicability of a filter paper method to measure blood lead levels in large populations of Chinese children. BACKGROUND: Capillary filter paper can be useful for screening blood lead concentrations in large populations of geographically dispersed Chinese children... XM Shen,YW Zhang,SH Wu,... - ...
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists therefore has clear guidelines for lead screening during pregnancy and lac- tation (22). For our cohort we noted that the baseline BLLs for majority of infants were below the CDC reference range for BLLs in children, thus eliminating trans...