Introduction to the Methods for Assessing the Impact of Screening in Childhood on Health Outcomes Supplement.

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* Abbreviation: NIH — : National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a special interest group on childhood screening that is staffed jointly by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Disease Prevention in the Office of the NIH Director. After a series of internal meetings, the special interest group decided that the most compelling issue to tackle was the lack of an evidence base to support screening recommendations for exposures, behaviors, and conditions that are part of current routine pediatric care. To stimulate methodologic innovation to address this problem, the NIH convened an in-person workshop in Bethesda, Maryland, on May 9–10, 2019, entitled “Methods for Assessing the Impact of Screening in Childhood on Health Outcomes.” Workshop objectives included (1) conceptualizing the universe of child health outcomes pertinent to screening; (2) identifying methodologic challenges in assessing child health outcomes; (3) discussing novel and rigorous approaches to assessing these outcomes; … Address correspondence to Diana W. Bianchi, MD, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Building 31, Room 2A03, 31 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD 20892. E-mail: diana.bianchi{at}nih.gov