What kinds of diagnoses does the HBDP pick up, and what kinds are not?
The HBDP picks up specified CDC recommended diagnoses relating to the brain and nervous system, the eye, ear, face and neck, cardiac and circulatory, respiratory, orofacial and gastrointestinal, genital and urinary, limb and musculoskeletal, skin and integument systems. The Program also collects data on specific chromosomal and other syndromes, neoplasms (pediatric cancers), congenital infections, and maternal substance abuse. Other areas that have their own surveillance systems (cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, pediatric AIDS, developmental disabilities, autism, rarer syndromes, etc.) are not collected by the HBDP.
