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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Med. 2012 Apr 5;14(8):703–712. doi: 10.1038/gim.2012.24

Figure 1. Simplified schematic of simulation model to project clinical and economic outcomes for PKU using one of many possible screening algorithms.

Figure 1

1Or “positive screen”; 2based on additional follow-up, newborns with initial presumed diagnoses are eventually categorized as either “false positive” or “true positive”; 3children without PKU follow natural history of general population; 4diagnosed through clinical identification. PKU, phenylketonuria.