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Health, United States
Example:
National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2000. Hyattsville, Maryland: Public Health Service. 2000.

Vital and Health Statistics series
Author's name, last name first and initials. Name of report. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat and series number. Year publication printed.

Example:
Lewis CT, Mathews TJ, Heuser RL. "Prenatal care in the United States, 1980-94." National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat Series No. 21 (54). 1966.

Monthly Vital Statistics Report
Author's name, last name first and initials. Name of report. Monthly vital statistics report; report number. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. Year publication printed.

Example:
Rosenberg HM, Ventura SJ, Maurer JD, et al. "Births and deaths: United States, 1995." Monthly vital statistics report; vol 45 no 3, supp 2. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 1996.

Advance Data From Vital and Health Statistics
Author's name, last name first and initials. Name of report. Advance data from vital and health statistics; report number. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. Year publication printed.

Example:
Edmund EJ, Gillium BS. "1994 Summary: National Hospital Discharge Survey." Advance data from vital and health statistics; no 278. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 1996.

ICD-9-CM
Full name of report, revision number: clinical modifications, edition number, year publication printed / Publisher. Published City, State / Publisher, copyright year. Edition name, vols. 1,2,3.

Example:
ICD-9-CM: international classification of diseases, 9th revision; clinical modification, 6th edition, 2006 / Practice Management Information Corporation (PMIC). Published Los Angeles, CA : PMIC, C2005. Edition Hospital edition, vols. 1,2,3.

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