# Screening and tests

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Browse, care area: Routine pregnancy care; Pregnancy conditions; The baby before birth; Recovery after birth; Mental health; Newborn care; Preterm and sick newborns; The baby's first year  

## In plain language

Pages about the blood, urine, questionnaire and newborn tests that look for a problem before or soon after it shows. Each page says who is tested and what the test looks for.

## Technical summary

Navigation grouping for screening and diagnostic tests in pregnancy, after birth and in the newborn, filed here with part\_of. It is a way to browse. It makes no statement about whether anything in it works.

## Connected pages

- Includes: No single agreed way to diagnose gestational diabetes (`maternal:bottleneck-gdm-diagnostic-criteria`)
- Includes: Developmental milestones and surveillance (`maternal:developmental-surveillance`)
- Includes: Newborn screening (`maternal:newborn-screening`)
- Includes: Early-onset newborn sepsis (`maternal:early-onset-neonatal-sepsis`)
- Includes: Gestational diabetes (`maternal:gestational-diabetes`)
- Includes: Newborn jaundice (hyperbilirubinaemia) (`maternal:neonatal-jaundice`)
- Includes: Retinopathy of prematurity (`maternal:retinopathy-of-prematurity`)
- Includes: Glucose tests for gestational diabetes (one-step and two-step) (`maternal:gdm-glucose-screening-test`)
- Includes: Newborn hearing screening (`maternal:newborn-hearing-screening`)
- Includes: Screening for depression in pregnancy and after birth (`maternal:perinatal-depression-screening`)
- Includes: PlGF-based testing for suspected preterm pre-eclampsia (`maternal:plgf-based-testing`)
- Includes: Diabetes testing after gestational diabetes (`maternal:postpartum-diabetes-screening-after-gdm`)
- Includes: Screening for infections in pregnancy (syphilis, hepatitis B, bacteriuria) (`maternal:prenatal-infection-screening`)
- Includes: Pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart disease (`maternal:pulse-oximetry-cchd-screening`)
- Includes: Draeger Jaundice Meter JM-105 (`maternal:draeger-jm-105`)
- Includes: Elecsys sFlt-1 and Elecsys PlGF (Roche) (`maternal:elecsys-sflt1-plgf`)
- Includes: Cell-free DNA screening for fetal chromosome conditions (`maternal:cell-free-dna-screening`)
- Includes: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) (`maternal:edinburgh-postnatal-depression-scale`)
- Includes: Paired sFlt-1 and PlGF immunoassays (`maternal:sflt1-plgf-immunoassay`)

## Provenance

Content hash: f4a4659417c046662815a12d87e3ab6107898de2bb5698de51ce77ec48534b36
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: Not recorded