Adjusted mortality rates: A tool for creating more meaningful league tables for stillbirth and infant mortality rates

Public Health

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 315-321

  Joyce, R ^a   Webb, R ^b   Peacock, J L ^a   Stirland, H ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b S Thames West Perinatal Audit Team   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Infant mortality; League tables; Stillbirths

Indexed keywords

INFANT MORTALITY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STILLBIRTH; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0036856345     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ph.1900865     Document Type: Article

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