US infant mortality trends attributable to accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed from 1984 through 2004: Are rates increasing?

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 533-539

  Shapiro Mendoza, Carrie K ^a   Kimball, Melissa ^a   Tomashek, Kay M ^a   Anderson, Robert N ^b   Blanding, Sarah ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidental suffocation; Classification; Death certification; Death scene investigation; Infant mortality; Reporting; SIDS; Sudden infant death syndrome; Sudden unexpected infant death; Unintentional injury; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRANGULATION; SUDDEN DEATH; UNITED STATES; HOME ACCIDENT; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; NEWBORN; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ASPHYXIA; DEATH, SUDDEN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; NECK INJURIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61549120110     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-3746     Document Type: Article

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