Using active birth defects surveillance programs to supplement data on fetal death reports: Improving surveillance data on stillbirths

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 799-804

  Duke, Wes ^a   Williams, Laura ^a   Correa, Adolfo ^a  

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

Author keywords

Birth defects; Fetal death; Stillbirth; Surveillance; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK FACTOR; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 56749182428     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20526     Document Type: Article

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