EUROCAT (medicine)

EUROCAT is a European organization that describes itself as "a network of population-based registries for the epidemiological surveillance of congenital anomalies, covering 1.5 million births in 20 countries of Europe".[1]

This article is about birth anomalies. For the air traffic management system, see Eurocat (transport).

They were founded in 1979, with the goal of improving the collection of data about congenital disorders, and the standardization of that data.[2][3]

They have published extensions to ICD-10 Chapter Q, which helps to provide unique codes for individual conditions.

As of 2006, approximately a quarter of new births in the European Union are reported to EUROCAT.[4]

See also

References
  1. "EUROCAT European surveillance of congenital anomalies". www.eurocat-network.eu.
  2. Dolk H (2005). "EUROCAT: 25 years of European surveillance of congenital anomalies". Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. 90 (5): F355–8. doi:10.1136/adc.2004.062810. PMC 1721939. PMID 16113149. Archived from the original on 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
  3. Lechat MF, Dolk H (1993). "Registries of congenital anomalies: EUROCAT". Environ. Health Perspect. 101 Suppl 2: 153–7. doi:10.2307/3431389. JSTOR 3431389. PMC 1519934. PMID 8243386.
  4. Meijer WM, Cornel MC, Dolk H, de Walle HE, Armstrong NC, de Jong-van den Berg LT (2006). "The potential of the European network of congenital anomaly registers (EUROCAT) for drug safety surveillance: a descriptive study". Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 15 (9): 675–82. doi:10.1002/pds.1265. PMID 16761260.



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