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Surveillance Guidelines and Standards

About the Committee
The committee was established to develop and promote the use of a uniform set of recommendations and standards for the collection, analysis, and reporting of birth defect surveillance data. These standards are intended to serve as resource for birth defect surveillance programs to improve the operations and usefulness of their system for birth defects monitoring and prevention. The Guidelines were published in June 2004. The committee is creating several workgroups whose activities will include evaluating/improving/adding chapters, exploring/developing other technical tools for abstractors, and addressing questions about or exploring issues with coding/coding systems.

Survey Results
In December of 2005, the Surveillance Guidelines and Standards Committee released a survey designed to measure user impressions of the Guidelines. In January of 2006, a focus group was interviewed at the annual meeting of the NBDPN.  A summary of the results can be found here.

In April of 2007, the Surveillance Guidelines and Standards Committee surveyed state contacts on their data collection methods and resources.  The results of this survey can be found here.

Contact Information
Committee Chair: Miland Palmer

 
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