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ICD-10 impact on ascertainment and accuracy of oral cleft cases as recorded by the Brazilian national live birth information system.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Apr 2018
do Nascimento Ricardo Lima, Castilla Eduardo E, Dutra Maria da Graça, Orioli Iêda M
Abstract excerpt
We compared Brazilian oral cleft (OC) frequencies between the population-based Brazilian System of Live Birth (SINASC) and the hospital-based Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC), trying to understand the paucity of cleft of lip and palate (CLP) in the first system. SINASC uses the International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD-10) for congenital defects coding, ECLAMC...
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