>>>If you are in the US, how do you deal with your state's requirement that
all newborns be tested later than 24 hours after birth but before hospital
discharge? .....I am helping to writing a form to help parents understand
that a) though the hospital is required to test even if discharge is in less
than 24 hours, the tests for inborn errors of metabolism will be invalid and
therefore need to be repeated later in the week, and that b) the parents are
entitled to decline the first test, especially if they know they are going
to have the poor baby re-stuck the next day anyway.  Elisheva
        I am not sure of the accuracy of this information but when I questioned the
same topic at my hospital I was told that the PKU test  may be invalid but
that there are multiple tests for other inborn errors of metabolism that are
valid and results of which are needed as quickly as possible if they should
turn out to be positive.   These tests are performed at the same time as the
more well known PKU test.
        Carla

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