Problems in using birth certificate files in the capture-recapture model to estimate the completeness of case ascertainment in a population-based birth defects registry in New York state

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 772-777

  Wang, Ying ^a,b   Druschel, Charlotte M ^a,b   Cross, Philip K ^a   Hwang, Syni An ^a,b   Gensburg, Lenore J ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth certificates; Birth defects; Capture recapture; Completeness; Congenital malformations registry; Hospital discharge data

Indexed keywords

ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH DEFECT; CASE FINDING; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DOWN SYNDROME; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GASTROSCHISIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTESTINE STENOSIS; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODEL; MOUTH MALFORMATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OMPHALOCELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; UNITED STATES;

ABNORMALITIES; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33751196334     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20293     Document Type: Article

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