Skip to main content
American Journal of Public Health logoLink to American Journal of Public Health
letter
. 1997 Feb;87(2):301. doi: 10.2105/ajph.87.2.301

The quality of data reported on birth certificates.

R S Kirby
PMCID: PMC1380818  PMID: 9103123

Full text

PDF

Page 301

301

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Buescher P. A., Taylor K. P., Davis M. H., Bowling J. M. The quality of the new birth certificate data: a validation study in North Carolina. Am J Public Health. 1993 Aug;83(8):1163–1165. doi: 10.2105/ajph.83.8.1163. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Janssen P. A., Rothman I., Schwartz S. M. Congenital malformations in newborns of women with established and gestational diabetes in Washington State, 1984-91. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 1996 Jan;10(1):52–63. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1996.tb00026.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Olsen C. L., Polan A. K., Cross P. K. Case ascertainment for state-based birth defects registries: characteristics of unreported infants ascertained through birth certificates and their impact on registry statistics in New York state. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 1996 Apr;10(2):161–174. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1996.tb00040.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Parrish K. M., Holt V. L., Connell F. A., Williams B., LoGerfo J. P. Variations in the accuracy of obstetric procedures and diagnoses on birth records in Washington State, 1989. Am J Epidemiol. 1993 Jul 15;138(2):119–127. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116834. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. Piper J. M., Mitchel E. F., Jr, Snowden M., Hall C., Adams M., Taylor P. Validation of 1989 Tennessee birth certificates using maternal and newborn hospital records. Am J Epidemiol. 1993 Apr 1;137(7):758–768. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116736. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. Watkins M. L., Edmonds L., McClearn A., Mullins L., Mulinare J., Khoury M. The surveillance of birth defects: the usefulness of the revised US standard birth certificate. Am J Public Health. 1996 May;86(5):731–734. doi: 10.2105/ajph.86.5.731. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from American Journal of Public Health are provided here courtesy of American Public Health Association

RESOURCES