Data and Surveillance
MO-08-0048 CBDMP
An Overview
The California Birth Defects Monitoring Program (CBDMP) Registry actively reviews medical records to identify and describe major structural and chromosomal defects in a subset of California’s population. Information on birth defects is collected for the first year of life from multiple sources including hospitals, laboratories and genetic centers. CBDMP reports current rates and occurrence patterns concerning factors such as race, ethnicity, geographic region, type of defect, mother’s age, single and multiple births. For more information about the CBDMP registry datasets please contact CBDMP.