North Dakota § 25-17-02.1 - Testing and reporting requirements

§ 25-17-02.1. Testing and reporting requirements

1. A responsible clinician shall provide the parents and guardians of a newborn written information on the nature of newborn screening and confirmatory-diagnostic testing. The parents or guardians of a newborn may object to screening after receiving the 2. 3. 4. 5. written information. A newborn may not be subject to screening to which the newborn's parents or guardians object. In the case of an objection, the responsible clinician shall record the objection in a document signed by the parents or guardians and shall submit the document to the department. The responsible clinician attending a newborn shall cause that newborn to be subjected to screening in the manner prescribed by the department. The screening laboratory shall provide to the department screening results and any blood spots used in screening. If screening shows an out-of-range screening result, the responsible clinician shall cause the newborn to be subjected to appropriate clinical followup by a licensed clinician which may include confirmatory-diagnostic testing. The responsible clinician shall ensure the department receives any confirmatory-diagnostic testing results. A licensed clinician attending a patient with a metabolic disease or genetic disease that was not detected by the state's newborn screening program shall report the case to the department.