Medical Technology Assessment Directory A Pilot Reference to Organizations, Assessments, and Information Resources (1988) / Chapter Skim
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Part 3: Information and Data Resources
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Part 3 Information and Data Resources
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The subject index is for identifying information and data resources relevant to particular topics.
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INFORMATION AND DATA RESOURCES Categories of Infonnation and Data Resources I doe .~ 1_ A ~e,~ 39- ~ Aid\ fit ~ /~ Abstracts of Health Care Machine-Readable Data Files ADAMHA Publications and Data AMA/NET Baseline Reports BIOETHICSLINE Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Reports BMEDSS Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program BPS/SEARCH CANCERLIT CASSIS CCC Bibliography on Regional Variations in Health Care Center for Health Promotion and Education CLINPROT COLLEAGUE COMPASS, DURbase Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies CPHA Files CRISP Current Assessments New Technology Abstracts ~4 · .
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MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT DIRECTORY Categories of Information and Data Resources \ Device Experience Network DIALOG Directory of Health Services and Research Organizations DIRLINE Drug Product Problem Reporting Program Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Database Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Reports Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Reports FDA Bulletin Board F-D-C Reports Futures Program HEALTH Health Devices Alerts Health Devices Sourcebook Health Information Resources in the Federal Government HEALTHLAWYER HECLINET HIAA Medical Appropriateness Compilation High Blood Pressure Information Center IMPAC IMS Audits International Market Research Studies INTERNIST- 1/ QUICK MEDICAL REFERENCE Market Research Reports Market/Technology Reports Medical Device and Laboratory Product Problem Reporting Program Medical Device Register 502 \ ~ ~ Ace' , ~_ -, ~ · ~ ~ ~ .+ \,~9
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INFORMATION AND DATA RESOURCES Categories of Information and Data Resources .^ MEDLINE MEDLINK Multi-Client Reports NAHDO Resource Manual NCHS Publications and Data National Cholesterol Educ Prog/ NHLBI Smoking Educ Prog Info Ctr National Reference File NTIS Publications and Data NEXIS NHLBI Publications Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials PDQ Pharmaprojects POPLINE Product Development Directory Product SOS Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials Report Collection Report on Cost-Effective Products and Technologies Scrip SEER SPRILINE Technical Data Center U.S. Industrial Outlook WHO/LINFO Database on Health Technology Assessment WHO Publications Cal An' Medical Device Reporting l | · | | | | :~ 1 :41 ~4 503
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An updated version, Inventory of Machine-Readable Healthcare Data Bases will be available in 1988; price to be set by AHA. Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Publications and Data Source: Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA)
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SOCIO/ ECONOMIC BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION contains over 5,500 citations to documents pertaining to health care delivery and economic issues in medicine. Also available are electronic communications services, including electronic mail and bulletin boards; public information services providing direct access to such government organizations as the Centers for Disease Control, the Surgeon General's Office, and the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health; AMA; literature ordering service providing reprints of articles referenced in either the SOCIO/ECONOMIC BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION or EMPIRES databases; interactive, computerbased continuing medical education courses developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science.
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Data express service provides custom reports in response to special requests for data or analyses. Compilation: Information gathered from data tapes supplied by 109 acute care hospitals and two Veterans Administration hospitals in Massachusetts and surrounding communities.
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incidence of birth defects; functions primarily as an early warning system for correlating incidence patterns with temporal and geographic distribution of drugs, chemicals, other possible human teratogens. Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program collects and analyzes data on developmental disabilities in 10 year-olds in Atlanta area.
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Other services include User Report Forum that allows device experiences to be entered onto FDA DEN; Inventory Comparison Program permits in-house medical device inventories to be compared to current FDA recall file and ECRI's HDA and DEN files and automati cally flags recalled equipment; electronic mail and bulletin board. Compilation: Information gathered from FDA sources, ECRI publications and databases, professional journals, and other relevant publications.
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Most references are updated monthly; newspaper files are updated daily. Access: Databases available online; accessible via modem from remote terminal through TELENET, TYMNET, OCLC GATEWAY, IN-WATS, direct dial.
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Also accessible via modem from remote terminal through TELENET, TYMNET, direct dial. To contact MEDLARS Management Division call 800-638-8480 or 301-496-6193 in Maryland.
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No direct access from other remote terminals. CCC (Copenhagen Collaborating Center)
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Access: Available online at any time through NLM MEDLARS computer system to more than 6,000 online centers in hospitals, medical schools, universities, government agencies, commercial firms, and other organizations throughout U.S., as well as MEDLARS centers located in 13 other countries. Also accessible via modem from remote terminal through TELENET, TYMNET, direct dial.
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Access: Databases available online; accessible via modem from remote terminal through TELENET, TYMNET, direct dial. Online or offline document printing are available.
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Room 438F Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201, 202-245-6445 Subject: Examples from 300-term subject index are ambulatory and outpatient health care, biomedical research, drugs therapeutic and devices, economic analysis, health care delivery systems, health insurance and financing, information systems, medical practice, medical technology, quality assurance, and utilization review.
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Compilation: CPHA files are compiled from patient discharge data from more than 1,400 hospitals, covering 10 million patients and 25 percent of North America's acute care hospitalizations. National Patient Sample File is based on 2 million patient sample drawn every year.
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Current Assessments, New Technology Abstracts Source: New York State Center for Assessing Health Services, Health Services Center 4L 215, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 1~1794, 516444-2101 Subject: Current Assessments covers public health, clinical and health services research; New Technology Abstracts covers innovations in health care technology and biomedical research. Content: Current Assessments provides annotated summaries of journal articles that report findings from public health, clinical, and health services research; and address the impact of technology on health policy.
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Source: Division of Product Surveillance, Office of Compliance, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, HFZ-343, Food and Drug Administration, 8757 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 301-427-8100 Subject: Postmarketing surveillance of FDA-approved medical devices and in vitro diagnostic and laboratory products. Content: Computerized database contains voluntary reports from health care providers and provider organizations concerning device-related hazards, defects, and deficiencies; these include performance failures, improper labeling, incomplete, inadequate, or erroneous instructions, unsatisfactory packaging, or defective components.
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Content: Includes over 250 multidisciplinary databases. Those relevant to medical technology include BIOSIS PREVIEWS, CANCERLIT, CLINICAL ABSTRACTS (abstracts from journals covering clinical medicine, clinical practice, and research)
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See MEDLINE description for listing of NLM MEDLARS databases. Compilation: Information gathered from Library of Congress National Referral Center database and the ODPHP National Health Information Center database (a product of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S.
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Contact DCCC Director regarding access to data resources; written requests indicating purpose of data acquisition and specific data required are preferred. Database search costs, if any, vary according to information requested.
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Information gathered from individual studies, surveillance systems, laboratory data of subjects in special studies, and National Medical Examiner/Coroner Survey. Reports and other publications issued on an ad hoc basis.
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Access: Reports of studies are usually available from the requesting agency within or outside CDC for which studies are done, rather than from EHLS. Reprints of journal articles written by EHLS staff and other publications available upon request by writing to source.
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Health Policy ~ Biomedical Research covers Medicare and Medicaid, public health, health professions education and supply, federal health policy, developments concerning NIH and ADAMHA, university and industrial biomedical research, and FDA regulatory activity affecting these. Technology Reimbursement Reports covers health care reimbursement and the medical technology industry.
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Resource Center, 840 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, 312-280-6263 Subject: Non-clinical aspects of health care delivery, including administration and planning of health care facilities, services and manpower; health insurance; health policy; financial management; law and regulation; personnel administration; quality assurance; licensure and accreditation; and patient education and health promotion. Content: Database includes approximately 330,000 bibliographic citations, 90 percent of which are to English language publications.
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Access: Health Devices Sourcebook published annually; 1987 edition price $140. Heady Infonnation Resources in the Federal Government Source: ODPLIP National Health Information Center (ONHIC)
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ONHIC database of referral organizations available online through NLM MEDLARS computer system as a component of DIRLINE. Directory provides DIRLINE record accession number for each organization to facilitate online searching.
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60 percent of the literature indexed in HECLINET appears in the printed version of the database, Informationsdienst Krankenhauswesenl Health Care Information Service. HECLINET's Thesaurus Krankhauswesen uses 1,100 indexing terms, available in German and English.
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Publishes quarterly newsletter featuring ongoing projects and activities. Compilation: Information gathered from medical and professional journals, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Health Interview Survey, National Center for Health Statistics reports, NHLBI demonstration and education projects, NHLBI research grants, state and local health departments, voluntary health agencies, pharmaceutical company publications, and member organizations on National High Blood Pressure Education Program Coordinating Council.
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The Trainee Appointment File contains information on NIH, ADAMHA, and CDC training grant programs. The Committee Management Information System includes information on NIH public advisory committees.
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Content: International Market Research Studies analyze market size, trends, competition, distribution channels, competition, distribution channels, business practices, barriers, and other market factors for an industry in a selected country. Studies on medical equipment and/or health care services were concl~cter1 for ~nnro~xim~t`>lv in rm,~ntri~c during the period 1982- 1987.
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Market Research Reports Source: Theta Corporation, Theta Building, Middlefield, CT 06455, 203-349-1054 Subject: Market analysis/research on health care, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, analytical instruments; intended primarily for medical device manufacturers. Content: Reports cover specific markets, including description and analysis of technology, review of other technologies in field, evaluation of competitors, current market assessment, market trends and projections.
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Healthcare Technology Transfer and Product Opportunities directory covers descriptions and contact information for technologies available for purchase, license, or distribution. Other reports cover international regulations for health care products, and market research reports for specific countries.
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DEN reports in microfiche and additional information about specific reports available from FDA, Freedom of Information Office, Room 12A16, HFI-31, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-443-6310. Monthly publication Device Experience Network Reports, which includes PRP but not Medical Device Reporting information, is available from FOI Services, Inc., 301-881-0410 for $190.
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Source: Division of Product Surveillance, Office of Compliance, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, HFZ-343, Food and Drug Administration, 8757 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 301 -427-8100 Subject: Postmarketing surveillance of medical devices and in vitro diagnostic products. Content: Medical Device Reporting regulation ~ 1984)
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Access: Database available online from remote terminal. Connect cost is $30/hour including telecommunication cost.
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Access: Available online at any time through NLM MEDLARS computer system to more than 6,000 online centers in hospitals, medical schools, universities, government agencies, commercial firms, and other organizations throughout U.S., as well as MEDLARS centers located in 13 other countries. Also accessible via modem from remote terminal through TELENET, TYMNET, direct dial.
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Surcharges for newswires, bulletin board, gateway to other databases, text storage, and training classes. Multi-Client Reports Source: International Resource Development, Inc., 6 Prowitt Street, Norwalk, CT 06855, 203-866-7800 Subject: Market analysis/research reports on biotechnology, medical devices and systems, telecommunications, consumer electronics, financial services, personal computers, robotics, electro-optics.
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Public use data tapes and unpublished tabulations are also available. NCHS provides technical assistance through conferences, seminars, workshops, and individual consultations to foster and improve health statistics analysis and use.
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Single copies of publications available free of charge. NCEP/NSEP Information Center database not yet publicly available; however, planning is underway to make it available through BRS 800-345-4277, as part of the Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
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National Technical Information Service Publications and Data Source: National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161, 703-487-4650 Subject: Among the subject categories of the NTIS information classification system are biomedical technology and human factors engineering; computers, control, and information theory; government inventions for licensing; health planning and health services research; library and information sciences; and medicine and biology.
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Access: Database available online via modem from remote terminal. Connect cost: $30/ hour including telecommunication cost, plus $7 peak time search charge for individual files; 30 percent discount for off-peak.
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Source: International Cancer Information Center, Office of International Affairs, National Cancer Institute (NCI) , Building 82 Room 103, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301496-7403 Subject: Advances in cancer treatment and clinical trials; designed for use by physiaans.
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Access: Available online at any time through NLM MEDLARS computer system to more than 6,000 online centers in hospitals, medical schools, universities, government agencies, commercial firms, and other organizations throughout U.S., as well as MEDLARS centers located in 13 other countries. Also accessible via modem from remote terminal through TELENET, TYMNET, direct dial.
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Also accessible via modem from remote terminal through TELENET, TYMNET, direct dial. Connect cost averages $22/hour peak time, $15/hour off-peak.
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Information gathered through published and unpublished literature searches. Five to ten papers or abstracts based on the collection published yearly.
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The Scrip database PHIND (Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries News Database) is available online.
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Content: Interactive online bibliographic database and library system includes references to literature, reports, organizations, and individuals; Swedish health services data; information on surveys and pilot projects. SPRILINE database includes 13,000 records of books, journal articles, and unpublished research reports on Swedish health care from Research Report Bank.
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Telephone inquiries accepted 9am-3pm weekdays. Document delivery service supplies copies of journal articles and lends books and reports; document requests can be made online via electronic mailbox, mail, and telephone.
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Chapters relevant to medical technology include drugs (covering SICs for biologicals, medicinals and botanicals, and pharmaceutical preparations) , medical and dental instruments and supplies (x-ray and electromedical equipment, surgical and medical instruments, surgical appliances and supplies, and dental equipment and supplies)
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9121-1 1 Subject: Public health, including epidemiological data and statistical indicators. Content: Books, reports, monographs, periodicals covering such topics as biologicals, pharmaceuticals, radiation and health, laboratories, health systems development, hospitals and health care facilities, human rights and medical ethics, immunology and immunization, health economics and expenditures, health statistics, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic diseases, environmental health, health of the elderly.
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INFORMATION AND DATA RESOURCES SUBJECT INDEX TO INFORMATION AND DATA RESOURCES Academic health services Directory of Health Services Research Organizations Alcohol Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Publications and Data Ambulatory medical care National Center for Health Statistics Publications and Data Behavioral risk factors Center for Health Promotion and Education Biomedical engineering BMEDSS Market Research Reports Multi-Client Reports Bioethics BIOETHICSLINE SPRILINE Birth defects Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Reports Blood diseases NHLBI Publications Blood resources NHLBI Publications Cancer CANCERLIT CLINPROT Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Database PDQ SEER Cardiovascular diseases NHLBI Publications Chronic diseases Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Reports Cholesterol National Cholesterol Education Program/ NHLBI Smoking Education Program Infor mation Center Clinical trials CLINPROT Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials PDQ Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials Report Collection Cost effectiveness Report on Cost-Effective Products and Technologies CPT-4 codes AMA/NET Current awareness services AMA/NET BRS FDA Bulletin Board F-D-C Reports Futures Program Health Devices Alerts MEDLINE NEXIS Scrip 551
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MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT DIRECTORY Database utilities BRS COLLEAGUE DIALOG MEDLINK Developmental disabilities Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Reports Diagnosis INTERNIST 1/Quick Medical Reference Disasters Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Re ports DRGs Baseline Reports Drug abuse Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Ad ministration Publications and Data Drug utilization review SEE Pharmaceuticals Environmental health Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Re ports Health planning Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Re- HEALTH ports Technical Data Center Evaluation studies Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Rele vant Other Studies Expert systems INTERNIST 1/Quick Medical Reference Family planning National Center for Health Statistics Publica tions and Data POPLINE Genetic diseases Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Report 552 Health administration HEALTH SPRILINE Health care delivery AMA/NET HEALTH National Reference File Health care data SEE ALSO Hospital data, Patient data Abstracts of Health Care Machine-Readable Data Files NAHDO Resource Manual National Reference File Health care economics Baseline Reports National Center for Health Statistics Publications and Data Health care product manufacturers Health Devices Sourcebook Medical Device Register National Reference File Pharmaprojects Help U.S. Industrial Outlook Health policy BIOETHICSLINE Current Assessments, New Technology Abstracts Directory of University-Based Health Services and Policy Research Centers Health promotion Center for Health Promotion and Education HEALTH High Blood Pressure Information Center National Cholesterol Education Program/ NHLBI Smoking Education Program Information Center Health services research Current Assessments, New Technology Abstracts Directory of Health Services Research Organizations
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AMA/NET BRS COLLEAGUE DIALOG MEDIS MEDLINE Mental health Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Publications and Data 553
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MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT DIRECTORY Nutrition Center for Health Promotion and Education National Center for Health Statistics Publica tions and Data Occupational safety and health Technical Data Center Organizational directories Directory of Health Services Research Organizations DIRLINE Health Devices Sourcebook Pulmonary diseases Health Information Resources in the Federal NHLBI Publications Government Patents CASSIS Patient data SEE ALSO Health care data, Hospital data Baseline Reports CPHA Files Patient discharge SEE Hospital data Perinatal medicine Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials Pharmaceuticals BMEDSS Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Pro gram COMPASS Drug Problem Reporting Program FDA Bulletin Board F-D-C Reports IMS Audits Market Research Reports Pharmaprojects Report on Cost-Effective Products and Tech nologies ~ . scalp Population POPLINE Postmarketing surveillance BMEDSS Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Pro gram 554 COMPASS Device Experience Network Drug Product Reporting Program Health Devices Alerts Medical Device and Laboratory Product Problem Reporting Program Medical Device Reporting Product Development Directory/Product SOS Public health World Health Organization Publications Registries Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Reports Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Database Reproductive health Center for Health Promotion and Education Research programs CRISP Current Assessments, New Technology Abstracts IMPAC National Technical Information Service Publications and Data Smoking National Cholesterol Education Program/ NHLBI Smoking Education Program Information Center Toxic agents Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Reports Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Reports Technical Data Center Vital statistics National Center for Health Statistics Publications and Data
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