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Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:925.
Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

PRACTICE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Ma et al. Respond to "Birth Certificates—A Best Control Scenario?"

Xiaomei Ma1 , Patricia A. Buffler2, Michael Layefsky3, Monique B. Does2 and Peggy Reynolds4

1 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
2 Division of Public Health Biology and Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
3 Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA.
4 Environmental Health Investigations Branch, California Department of Health Services, Oakland, CA.

Received for publication February 23, 2004; accepted for publication March 3, 2004.

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We appreciate the thoughtful commentary by Ross et al. (1) on our manuscript in this issue of the Journal (2). We are encouraged by their plan to assess the feasibility of obtaining birth certificates for control selection nationwide.

The focus of our manuscript was on comparing . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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