Towards a gold standard for national prevalence estimates of birth defects

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 770-771

  Meyer, Robert E ^a   Sever, Lowell E ^b  

^a State Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECT; ETHNOLOGY; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RELIABILITY; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751176450     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20326     Document Type: Short Survey

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