Quality of reporting on birth defects in birth certificates: Case study from a Brazilian reference hospital;Qualidade da notificação de defeitos congênitos nas declarações de nascido vivo: Estudo de caso em hospital de referência no Brasil

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1721-1731

  Luquetti, Daniela Varela ^a   Koifman, Rosalina Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Birth certificates; Congenital abnormalities; Information systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749103721     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2009000800008     Document Type: Article

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