Using Death Certificates to Characterize Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): Opportunities and Limitations

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-43

  Shapiro Mendoza, Carrie K ^a   Kim, Shin Y ^a   Chu, Susan Y ^a   Kahn, Emily ^a   Anderson, Robert N ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APNEA; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; ASPIRATION; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FALLING; FEVER; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL REFLUX; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION; INJURY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTOXICATION; LIVER DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; INFANT; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72049117892     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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