A Preliminary Report on Kanagawa Birth Defects Monitoring Program (KAMP)
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- KUROKI Yoshikazu
- Kanagawa Children's Medical Center
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- KONISHI Hiroshi
- Kanagawa Children's Medical Center
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- TSUNODA Akio
- Kanagawa Children's Medical Center
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- TADOKORO Fumio
- The Kanagawa Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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- ADACHI Kenji
- The Kanagawa Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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- YAGI Shinichi
- The Kanagawa Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Abstract
Since the thalidomide episode, several monitoring systems for birth defects have been developed throughout the world. The International Clearing-house for Birth Defects Monitoring Systems established in 1974 plays an important role in the exchange of information relevant to birth defects and/or monitoring systems. There are two types of monitoring systems, namely, population-based and hospital-based. Though the Tokyo Area Birth Defects Monitoring Program (hospital-based) has participated in the activities of the Clearinghouse, no population-based monitoring systems exist in Japan prior to 1981 . The Kanagawa Birth Defects Monitoring Program has been in operation since October 1981 as the first population-based monitoring system in Japan. In this program, 48 marker malformations and other major surface anomalies are monitored for all births (live births and stillbirths) within 7 days after birth. A guide-book distributed to all participating maternity hospitals plays an extremely important role in increasing the completeness of ascertainment of malformations.
Journal
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- official journal of Congeital Anomalies Research Association of Japan
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official journal of Congeital Anomalies Research Association of Japan 22 (3), 223-228, 1982-09-30
The Japanese Teratology Society
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390564238072535040
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- NII Article ID
- 110002754013
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- ISSN
- 24331503
- 00372285
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed