Sickle Cell Disease in Georgia: Facts for the Public

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)‏. Division of Blood Disorders.
• Description:
  What is RuSH?
  
  •• Registry and Surveillance System for
  
  Hemoglobinopathies (RuSH) was a pilot project
  
  of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  (CDC), with the National Institutes of Health’s
  
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
  
  •• The overall purpose of RuSH was to collect statespecific,
  
  population-based data on people with
  
  sickle cell disease (SCD) and thalassemia in order
  
  to provide accurate updated information to the
  
  public.
  
  •• Seven states were funded to participate in data
  
  collection: California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan,
  
  New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
  
  CS238867_C
  
  Publication date retrieved from document properties
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anemia, Sickle Cell
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4a06dbad56d4cecfd810afe3518b64212248b12a21e4bb5a3689b63562e0a6ebc14c4eb6bbd89ef68556bf48413ea218c4c1066dbebd795c4a42902caeacd02c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/51960/cdc_51960_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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