The NBDPN is committed to the primary prevention of birth defects and improvement of outcomes for children and families living with birth defects through the use of birth defects surveillance data for research, program planning, and program evaluation. Previous NBDPN reports were published in Terato
Using birth defects epidemiology to take CHARGE
β Scribed by Lin, Angela E.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 31 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-3709
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