Estimating the birth prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of congenital malformations worldwide.

ABSTRACT: Congenital anomaly registries have two main surveillance aims: firstly to define baseline epidemiology of important congenital anomalies to facilitate programme, policy and resource planning, and secondly to identify clusters of cases and any other epidemiological changes that could give early warning of environmental or infectious hazards. However, setting up a sustainable registry and surveillance system is resource-intensive requiring national infrastructure for recording all cases and diagnostic facilities to identify those malformations that that are not externally visible. Consequently, not all countries have yet established robust surveillance systems. For these countries, methods are needed to generate estimates of prevalence of these disorders which can act as a starting point for

SUBMITTER: Moorthie S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6167261 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature