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Routine Antenatal Diagnostic Imaging With Ultrasound (RADIUS) Study-Reply
Bernard Ewigman, MD, MSPH;
Michael LeFevre, MD, MSPH
Department of Family and Community Medicine University of Missouri—Columbia Columbia
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(6):490-491.
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We appreciate the opportunity to respond to Dr Smith's letter regarding the RADIUS study. In 1984, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of the Medical Applications of Research (OMAR) convened a consensus conference titled "Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging in Pregnancy" that concluded with a recommendation that a large clinical trial of ultrasound screening was needed in the United States.1 Consequently, the NICHD funded the RADIUS trial and an NICHD obstetrician was a coinvestigator in the trial, served as a member of the steering committee, and coauthored the papers reporting our primary findings. The RADIUS investigators actively supported the idea of an interpretive workshop several months before the manuscripts that reported our primary findings were even published. As chair of the RADIUS steering committee, one of us (B.E.) served on the planning committee for the workshop along with individuals from the NICHD and the OMAR.
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