Congenital abdominal wall defects in the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;318:733 ( 13 March )

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Congenital abdominal wall defects in the United Kingdom

Sources had different reporting patterns

Analysis should be restricted to regional data

Sources had different reporting patterns

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EDITOR $---$ Stone et al have a very different view from ours of abdominal wall defects in our regions (former South East Thamesand North West Thames).¹ As they acknowledge, the cited ratesfor abdominal wall defects were derived from sources with differentreporting patterns. In particular, the rates quoted for Englandand Wales were from data from the Office for National Statistics,²which take no account of terminations for abnormalities diagnosedprenatally, whereas the Glasgow and northern England registershave tried to be comprehensive.

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More appropriate north-south comparisons could have been achieved from the rates reported by individual regional registerssuch as those in the former South East Thames and North West Thamesregions. These registers obtain data in a similar manner to thenorthern regional registers, with active data collection frommultiple sources and inclusion of terminations and stillbirths.The table shows the data for abdominal wall defects . . . [Full text of this article]

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