Medical records vs. interview responses: A comparative analysis of selected variables for linked birth defect cases

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 592-596

  Ramadhani, Tunu A ^a,c   Canfield, Mark A ^a   Waller, D Kim ^b   Case, Amy P ^a  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

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

^c Texas Birth Defects Monitoring Div   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Concordance; Maternal interviews; Medical records; Prevalence; Texas

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; EPILEPSY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEXAS;

EID: 4544280418     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20068     Document Type: Article

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