Use of CUSUM and Shewhart charts to monitor regional trends of birth defect reports in New York State

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 669-678

  Babcock, Gwen D ^a   Talbot, Thomas O ^a   Rogerson, Peter A ^b   Forand, Steven P ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Cleft lip; Cleft palate; Prevalence; Quality control; Surveillance; Trends; Urinary tract

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIRTH DEFECT; CASE FINDING; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULATIVE SUM CHART; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITORING; NEWBORN; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; SHEWHART CHART; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

ABNORMALITIES; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; CLEFT PALATE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; MEDICAL RECORDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27644464553     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20209     Document Type: Article

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