Assessing the Quality of Medical and Health Data From the 2003 Birth Certificate Revision: Results From Two States

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• Personal Author:
  Martin, Joyce,A ; Wilson, Elizabeth,C ; Osterman, Michelle,J ; Saadi, Elizabeth,W ; Sutton, Shae,R ; Hamilton, Brady,E
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  A primary goal of the 2003 revision of the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth was to improve data quality, in part by improving data sources, definitions, and instructions. This report evaluates the quality of selected medical and health data from the 2003 revision of the birth certificate by comparing birth certificate data with information abstracted from hospital medical records.
• Subjects:
  Birth Certificates Data Accuracy Medical Records Quality Control Reproducibility Of Results Vital Statistics
• Keywords:
  data quality, validity, prenatal care, gestational age, National Vital Statistics System
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  20 pdf pages
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b6f676b1518e2768d92e3aceaa151cd54b9329392006382400dfde5d6999a54f22802e009c3216ed4d267c6c09cf495afdb40b8a22738a1d866497efd898906b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212587/cdc_212587_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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