Exploring the potential to use data linkage for investigating the relationship between birth defects and prenatal alcohol exposure

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 497-504

  O'Leary, Colleen M ^a,d   Elliott, Elizabeth J ^b   Nassar, Natasha ^c   Bower, Carol ^d  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol abuse; Alcohol and pregnancy; Birth defects; Cohort; Congenital anomalies; Data linkage; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABORIGINE; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHILDBIRTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL HEALTH; MICROCEPHALY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL AND PREGNANCY; BIRTH DEFECTS; COHORT; CONGENITAL ANOMALIES; DATA LINKAGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUSTRALIA; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84880701953     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23142     Document Type: Article

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