International trends in sudden infant death syndrome and other sudden unexpected deaths in infancy: Need for better diagnostic standardization

Current Pediatric Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-101

  Hauck, Fern R ^a,b   Tanabe, Kawai O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Infant mortality; Risk factors; Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI); Trends

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MATERNAL SMOKING; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TREND STUDY;

EID: 77954345643     PISSN: 15733963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339610791317241     Document Type: Article

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