Collecting and interpreting birth defects surveillance data by hispanic ethnicity: a comparative study. The Hispanic Ethnicity Birth Defects Workgroup.

RUSSELL KIRBY, JOANN PETRINI, CAROLINE ALTER, and THE HISPANIC ETHNICITY BIRTH DEFECTS WORKGROUP Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Milwaukee Clinical Campus, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201-0342. Perinatal Data Center, Office of the Medical Director, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, White Plains, New York 10605. Members of the Hispanic Ethnicity Birth Defects Workgroup include: Arizona Department of Health Service, Birth Defects Monitoring Program: Timothy J. Flood, MD, Thomas E. Hughes, MA; California Birth Defects Monitoring Program: Kamala Deosaransingh, MPH, Jackie White Wynne, BA; Colorado Responds to Children with Special Needs: Lisa Miller, MD, Heather Orton, Russel Rickard, MS; New Jersey Birth Defects Registry and Special Needs Registry: Leslie M. Beres, MS; New Mexico Birth Defects Prevention and Surveillance System: Mary Olguin, EdD; New York State Congenital Malformations Registry: Charlotte Druschel, MD, MPH, Jeffrey P. Hughes, MPH; Texas Birth Defects Monitoring Division: Mark Canfield, PhD; March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation: Donald Mattison, MD, MPH. The assistance of Larry D. Edmonds, MSPH, and Paula Yoon, PhD, Division of Birth Defects and Pediatric Genetics, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is gratefully acknowledged.