Sickle Cell Disease in Georgia: Facts for Providers

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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 state-specific,
  
  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:ba57aaefdfce6a11be90e0bc014a63efdb235c21cb9807881dd558f91e8fa2e0c35864eeb7e7b07bdfec6b7d89d62775b63aab94f0d3d7959ebaecf5867f66b0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/51961/cdc_51961_DS1.pdf
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