- EUROCAT
EUROCAT is the "European network of population based registries for congenital anomalies".
They were founded in
1979 , with the goal of improving the collection of data aboutcongenital disorder s, and the standardization of that data.cite journal |author=Dolk H |title=EUROCAT: 25 years of European surveillance of congenital anomalies |journal=Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. |volume=90 |issue=5 |pages=F355–8 |year=2005 |pmid=16113149 |doi=10.1136/adc.2004.062810 |url=http://fn.bmjjournals.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16113149] cite journal |author=Lechat MF, Dolk H |title=Registries of congenital anomalies: EUROCAT |journal=Environ. Health Perspect. |volume=101 Suppl 2 |issue= |pages=153–7 |year=1993 |pmid=8243386 |doi=]They have published extensions to , which helps to provide unique codes for individual conditions.
Approximately a quarter of the births in the
European Union are reported to EUROCAT.cite journal |author=Meijer WM, Cornel MC, Dolk H, de Walle HE, Armstrong NC, de Jong-van den Berg LT |title=The potential of the European network of congenital anomaly registers (EUROCAT) for drug safety surveillance: a descriptive study |journal=Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf |volume=15 |issue=9 |pages=675–82 |year=2006 |pmid=16761260 |doi=10.1002/pds.1265]ee also
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Rare disease References
External links
* [http://www.eurocat.ulster.ac.uk Home page]
* [http://www.eurocat.ulster.ac.uk/pdf/Q-Chapter.pdf Extensions for ICD-10, chapter Q] (PDF )
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