Racial/ethnic differences in survival of United States children with birth defects: A population-based study

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 819-826.e2

  Wang, Ying ^a   Liu, Gang ^b   Canfield, Mark A ^c   Mai, Cara T ^d   Gilboa, Suzanne M ^d   Meyer, Robert E ^e   Anderka, Marlene ^f   Copeland, Glenn E ^g   Kucik, James E ^d   Nembhard, Wendy N ^h   Kirby, Russell S ⁱ  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

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

^e North Carolina Birth Defects Monitoring Program   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALASKA NATIVE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANENCEPHALUS; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARM MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DOWN SYNDROME; ENCEPHALOCELE; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GASTROSCHISIS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT MORTALITY; INTESTINE ATRESIA; LEG MALFORMATION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OMPHALOCELE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLORUS STENOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRENDS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84933045914     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.12.025     Document Type: Article

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