The authors, led by Dr. Martina Persson from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, reached these conclusions by using information from the Swedish
medical birth registry (a database including nearly all the births occurring in Sweden since 1973) for all births (of single babies) that took place between 1992 to 2010 — comprising over 1.7 million births.
Not exact matches
The MANAstats
registry contains high - quality data that uses the gold standard — the
medical record — instead of
birth certificate data, which research shows is unreliable for studying intended place of
birth and newborn outcomes.
For the study, the researchers used national
medical registries to collect data from Denmark from 1997 to 2011 on all live
births,
birth defects and mothers»
medical conditions.