Leveraging Health Insurance Claims Data to Complement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Surveillance System for Birth Defects
Health care utilization databases can complement existing surveillance systems by generating, confirming, or refuting signals based on ecological trends or clusters. The availability of patient information in claims databases can allow for further investigation of signals to inform birth defect etiology.
Authors
- Kathryn J. Gray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3541-3724)
- Sonia Hernández–Dı́az (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7642)
- Jeremy Philip Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-7759)
- Loreen Straub (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2623-2726)
- Krista F. Huybrechts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5805-8430)
- Brian T. Bateman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5950-8683)
- Sharon Ng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1572-1332)
Institutions
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Birth Defects Research
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bdr2.2523
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.01