BMJ  2005;330 (1 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7481.0-d

National surveillance of congenital anomalies is deficient

The National Congenital Anomaly System is not adequate for surveillance of congenital anomalies in England. Boyd and colleagues (p 27) compared the system with four local congenital anomaly registers, covering about 109 000 births annually, and found that the national system registers only 40% of congenital anomalies captured by the local registers. This varied considerably by defect, local register, and hospital catchment area. Also, the system does not include data on terminations of pregnancy after prenatal diagnosis of fetal anomaly.


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Congenital anomaly surveillance in England—ascertainment deficiencies in the national system
P A Boyd, B Armstrong, H Dolk, B Botting, S Pattenden, L Abramsky, J Rankin, M Vrijheid, and D Wellesley
BMJ 2005 330: 27. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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