Differentiating Cause-of-Death Terminology for Deaths Coded as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Accidental Suffocation, and Unknown Cause: An Investigation Using US Death Certificates, 2003-2004

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 364-369

  Kim, Shin Y ^a   Shapiro Mendoza, Carrie K ^a   Chu, Susan Y ^a   Camperlengo, Lena T ^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

Accidental suffocation; Cause unknown; Death certificate; Forensic science; SIDS; SUID

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NOMENCLATURE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS; ASPHYXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863159767     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01937.x     Document Type: Article

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