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BIRTH CERTIFICATES are sometimes used as sources of information in epidemiologic research.Their efficiency in terms of providing records of large numbers of cases at low cost is beyond dispute; their reliability in terms of com- pleteness and accuracy of recorded medical and health information is uncertain and, therefore, often mistrusted.
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Mackeprang et al. (1972) studied this question.
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