National Standards for Birth Defects Surveillance

The National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN) is developing standards for population-based birth defects surveillance in the United States. These standards are a priority for NBDPN in order to improve the quality and consistency of birth defects data to make it more useful at the local and national levels for a variety of purposes.

National standards on data quality for birth defects surveillance are now available. 

• Background on the development and implementation of data quality standards for population-based birth defects surveillance
• Data Quality Assessment Tool (2015 version)
• Overall summary results from the 2015 population-based birth defects program self-assessment

 
The NBDPN will continue to conduct ongoing assessment of data quality performance measures and develop national standards on data utility. We welcome your input. Comments and questions can be sent to standards@nbdpn.org.