JRM Call for Manuscripts

Call for Manuscripts
Themed Issue on Birth Defects Registry Methods, Spring 2016
Journal of Registry Management
http://nbdpn.org/jrm_call_for_manuscripts.php
DUE DATE: Friday, December 18, 2015

The National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN) is pleased to announce that we are continuing our arrangement with the Journal of Registry Management (JRM) to provide a themed issue on birth defects surveillance, with papers focusing on birth defects program methods, approaches to assuring/evaluating data quality and completeness, and innovative approaches to improving the science and practice of birth defects surveillance.  The NBDPN annual report will continue to be published in the winter in Birth Defects Research Part A (BDRA) and will focus primarily on birth defects epidemiology and etiologic research.  This arrangement with the JRM provides the NBDPN with a venue to advance the field of birth defects surveillance through publications that demonstrate methodological innovations and registry practice enhancements.  The JRM birth defects themed issue (Spring 2014) can be accessed at http://www.ncra-usa.org/files/public/JRM41.01.pdf

Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and approved under JRM guidelines (http://www.ncra-usa.org/files/public/AuthorsInformationJRM_Summer2015.pdf). Manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter including the names, addresses and telephone numbers or email addresses for at least two potential reviewers uninvolved with the current work who might be willing to provide an objective and unbiased review.  Manuscripts should have internal clearance, if required for agency submission, and be submitted by Friday, December 18, 2015 to jrm_nbdpn@nbdpn.org.  Manuscripts may come from a single program, from multi-state, and/or international collaborative efforts and activities.

We are especially interested in manuscripts focusing on the following areas:

  • Use of surveillance data to support public health program assessment, design, and evaluation
  • Improved birth defects surveillance methods
  • Application of NBDPN surveillance program standards in state surveillance practice
  • Cluster investigations
  • Statistical techniques, role and/or use of GIS, or meta-analyses
  • Quality assurance: general protocols, re-abstraction techniques, assessment methods, and/or evaluation
  • Methods for presentation and dissemination of birth defects data
  • Program methodology: role of advisory committees, model legislation, methods for planning and evaluation, and/or prenatal and stillbirth surveillance
Potential contributors can contact Dr. Russell Kirby (813-396-2347, rkirby@health.usf.edu) or Dr. Wendy Nembhard (501-364-5045, wnnembhard@uams.edu) for more information or for a consultation on topics under consideration.  If your topic is outside the topical areas listed above, please contact us because we would like to discuss it with you further.
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The Journal of Registry Management is the official journal of National Cancer Registrars Association. This peer-reviewed journal publishes papers on topics related to the management of health registries and the collection, management and use of cancer, trauma, AIDS and other health registry data four times a year.