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Rethinking Race in Prenatal Screening for Open Neural Tube Defects

Rethinking Race in Prenatal Screening for Open Neural Tube Defects

Update: 2025-03-28
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Correction: This podcast has been updated to add additional context on the frequency of false positives.

Open neural tube defects affect approximately 1 in 1400 births. Daniel Herman, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine joins JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss a quality improvement study examining the need to continue to incorporate race in tests that screen for these defects.

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Rethinking Race in Prenatal Screening for Open Neural Tube Defects

Rethinking Race in Prenatal Screening for Open Neural Tube Defects