Feasibility of using the national hospital discharge survey to estimate the prevalence of selected birth defects

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 757-761

  Boulet, Sheree L ^a   Correa Villaseñor, Adolfo ^a   Hsia, Jason ^b   Atrash, Hani ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anencephaly; Birth defects; Hospital discharge data; Spina bifida; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANENCEPHALUS; ANOPHTHALMIA; ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLEFT PALATE; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DOWN SYNDROME; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GASTROSCHISIS; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; INTESTINE ATRESIA; INTESTINE STENOSIS; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; MICROPHTHALMIA; NEWBORN; OMPHALOCELE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINA BIFIDA; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18;

ABNORMALITIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751199638     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20291     Document Type: Article

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