Completeness of state administrative databases for surveillance of congenital heart disease

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 597-603

  Cronk, Christine E ^a   Malloy, Marsha E ^a   Pelech, Andrew N ^a   Miller, Richard E ^b   Meyer, Sally A ^b   Cowell, Melissa ^b   McCarver, D Gail ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Dept of Health and Family Services ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Congenital heart disease; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH CERTIFICATES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITALS, STATE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STATE GOVERNMENT; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0141640993     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.10107     Document Type: Article

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