Paper 3: EUROCAT data quality indicators for population-based registries of congenital anomalies

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Loane, Maria ^a   Dolk, Helen ^a   Garne, Ester ^b   Greenlees, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KOLDING HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ascertainment; Completeness; Congenital anomalies; Data quality; Registries

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EUROPE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; REVIEW;

ABORTION, INDUCED; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79952682978     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20779     Document Type: Review

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