Congenital Malformations Surveillance Report
Published in October 2001 by Teratology, Volume 64, Issue S1, 2001

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Introduction

Birth Defects Surveillance in the United States
F. John Meany

Original Articles

Effective coding in birth defects surveillance
Sonja A. Rasmussen, Cynthia A. Moore

Sources of variability in birth defects prevalence rates
Charlotte A. Hobbs, Sarah E. Hopkins, Caroline J. Simmons

Using active medical record review and capture-recapture methods to investigate the prevalence of down syndrome among live-born infants in Colorado
Heather Orton, Russel Rickard, Lisa Miller

Inclusion of early fetal deaths in a birth defects surveillance system
Mathias B. Forrester, Ruth D. Merz

The department of defense birth defects registry: Overview of a new surveillance system
Margaret A. K. Ryan, Melody A. Pershyn-Kisor, William K. Honner, Tyler C. Smith, Robert J. Reed, Gregory C. Gray

Process of and problems in changing a birth defects registry reporting system
Charlotte Druschel, Monica Sharpe-Stimac, Philip Cross

Improving estimates of caregiver time cost and family impact associated with birth defects
John M. Tilford, James M. Robbins, Charlotte A. Hobbs

Using the Colorado birth defects monitoring program to connect families with services for children with special needs
April Montgomery, Lisa Miller

Birth Defects Surveillance Programs Directory

State birth defects surveillance programs directory

Birth Defects Surveillance Data

Birth defects surveillance data from selected states 1989-1998

Appendix

Appendix A: ICD-9 and CDC/BPA codes for the forty-five reported birth defects