Cerebral palsy registers and high-quality data: An evaluation of completeness of the 4 Child register using capture-recapture techniques

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-107

  Surman, G ^a   da Silva, A A M ^b   Kurinczuk, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ascertainment; Capture recapture; Cerebral palsy; Impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBRAL PALSY; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBRAL PALSY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84155165455     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2011.01280.x     Document Type: Article

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