Screening for congenital hypothyroidism in newborns transferred to neonatal intensive care.

The article focuses on the study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of four dried blood spot testing protocols screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) of new born that are transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit. It mentions that population-based retrospective cohort study and logistic regression methods are used in the study. It concludes that primary testing programmes do not incorporate and serial screening may fail to identify approximately half of newborns with CH.