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Notification of congenital malformations detected during the first year of life has been compulsory in Finland since 1963. The reports on defects detected in liveborn infants are completed by information from death certificates for all deceased children and stillborn from the 28th week of gestation. Towards the end of 1984 22 105 malformed cases have been reported from 1.5 million births. This gives the incidence of 1.5 per 10 000 births.
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Ruusinen, A. (1985). Congenital Malformations — Information System and its Use. In: Roger, F.H., Grönroos, P., Tervo-Pellikka, R., O’Moore, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 85. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93295-3_105
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