Fetal death certificates as a source of surveillance data for stillbirths with birth defects

Public Health Reports

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 664-669

  Duke, C Wes ^a   Alverson, C J ^a   Correa, Adolfo ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHNICITY; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY AGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OMPHALOCELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SPINA BIFIDA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GEORGIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35148824630     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490712200514     Document Type: Article

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