Evaluation of a hospital-based surveillance system for birth defects in Chennai, India

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• Alternative Title:
  Int J Community Med Public Health
• Personal Author:
  Velayudhan, Anoop ; Seshadri, Suresh ; Jagadeesan, Sujatha ; Saravanan, Jayanti ; Yadav, Rajesh ; Yeung, Lorraine F.
• Description:
  The Birth Defects Registry of India-Chennai (BDRI-C) was created in 2001 to monitor birth defects and provide timely referrals. Using established guidelines to evaluate surveillance systems, we examined the following attributes of BDRI-C to help strengthen the registry: simplicity, flexibility, data quality, representativeness, acceptability, timeliness, and stability. We reviewed BDRI-C documents, including reporting forms; interviewed key informants; and calculated data completeness, coverage, and reporting time. BDRI-C captured 14% of the births in Chennai April 2013 - March 2014. About 7% of institutions in Chennai registered in BDRI-C, and of those registered, 37% provided data in 2013. Median reporting time was 44 days after birth in 2013. BDRI-C is a useful, simple, flexible, and timely passive birth defects surveillance system; however, improvements can be made to ensure BDRI-C is representative of Chennai, data processing and quality checks are on-going, and the system is acceptable for member institutions and stable.
• Keywords:
  Birth Defects Evaluation India Registries Surveillance
• Source:
  Int J Community Med Public Health. 8(11):5484-5488
• Pubmed ID:
  38617822
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11010458
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:45d0d6095deed67a5b4d8cf9f6764adec32a10c6a1145cf62d579c732ff4da16
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/154370/cdc_154370_DS1.pdf
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