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Early Diagnosis
To give support to an early diagnosis of PID in primary care centers and to include the most severe form of PID, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), in the newborn screening universal program in Catalonia.
SUPPORT TO NEWBORN SCREENING (NBS) FOR SCID
We support the universal implementation of Newborn Screening (NBS) for SCID in Spain. In Catalonia it is already ongoing since January 2017 and more that 70,000 newborns have already been screened.
THE PIDCAP PROJECT: Early diagnosis in Primary Care Centers
The project aims to get an earlier diagnosis of PID in primary care centers through a computerized diagnostic algorithm and manage a better coordination with the reference centers in PID.