Universal Newborn Screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Maryam Oskoui^{1

2}, Tamara Dangouloff³, Laurent Servais^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² Department of Pediatrics and Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
³ Division of Child Neurology, Reference Center for Neuromuscular Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Liege & University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
⁴ Muscular Dystrophy UK Neuromuscular Centre, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Maryam Oskoui et al. JAMA Pediatr. 2024.

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. 2024 Jun 1;178(6):520-521.

doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0489.

Maryam Oskoui^{1

2}, Tamara Dangouloff³, Laurent Servais^{3

4}

¹ Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² Department of Pediatrics and Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
³ Division of Child Neurology, Reference Center for Neuromuscular Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Liege & University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
⁴ Muscular Dystrophy UK Neuromuscular Centre, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Clinical Effectiveness of Newborn Screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.
Schwartz O, Vill K, Pfaffenlehner M, Behrens M, Weiß C, Johannsen J, Friese J, Hahn A, Ziegler A, Illsinger S, Smitka M, von Moers A, Kölbel H, Schreiber G, Kaiser N, Wilichowski E, Flotats-Bastardas M, Husain RA, Baumann M, Köhler C, Trollmann R, Schwerin-Nagel A, Eisenkölbl A, Schimmel M, Fleger M, Kauffmann B, Wiegand G, Baumgartner M, Rauscher C, Cirak S, Gläser D, Bernert G, Hagenacker T, Goldbach S, Probst-Schendzielorz K, Lochmüller H, Müller-Felber W, Schara-Schmidt U, Walter MC, Kirschner J, Pechmann A; SMARTCARE study group. Schwartz O, et al. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Jun 1;178(6):540-547. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0492. JAMA Pediatr. 2024. PMID: 38587854 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.