Collection, use, and protection of population-based birth defects surveillance data in the United States

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 811-814

  Mai, Cara T ^a   Law, David J ^b   Mason, Craig A ^c   McDowell, Bradley D ^d   Meyer, Robert E ^e   Musa, Debra ^f  

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

^b TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e State Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

^f New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Data protection; Population based; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

BIRTH DEFECT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RECORDS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37048998996     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20420     Document Type: Review

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