From the *Maternal and Infant Health Branch, †Information Technology, Statistics, and Surveillance Branch, and ‡Applied Sciences Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta, Georgia; and §Epidemic Intelligence Service, Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Green is now with Epidemiology and Drug Safety, Drug Safety and Surveillance, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Whitehead is currently with the Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on station in Chiang Rai, Thailand; and Disease Outbreak and Control Division, Hawaii Department of Health. Dr. Atrash is currently with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
The authors thank Lisa Koonin for leading the collection and maintenance of all abortion-procedure data during 1987–2000, Lisa Flowers for providing assistance with data entry and SAS programming for numerator analyses, and Joy Herndon for providing assistance by coordinating the abortion surveillance system from 2000 through the present.
Address reprint requests to: L. Bartlett MD, MHSc, Division of Reproductive Health, 4770 Buford Highway NE, MS-K-23, Atlanta, GA 30341; e-mail: [email protected].
Received August 25, 2003. Received in revised form December 3, 2003. Accepted December 19, 2003.
