The neonatal autopsy: Can it be revived?

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 739-744

  Swinton, Cameron H ^a   Weiner, Julie ^a   Okah, Felix A ^a  

^a CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

autopsy consent; autopsy rate; neonatal death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDBIRTH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN PERIOD; PARITY; PATIENT COMFORT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME OF DEATH;

AGE FACTORS; AUTOPSY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84884289560     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: 10988785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1332798     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. VanMarter L. J., Taylor F., Epstein M. F. Parental and physician-related determinants of consent for neonatal autopsy. Am J Dis Child: 1987; 141 149 153
2. Kumar P., Angst D. B., Taxy J., Mangurten H. H. Neonatal autopsies: a 10-year experience. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med: 2000; 154 38 42
3. Okah F. A. The autopsy: experience of a regional neonatal intensive care unit. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol: 2002; 16 350 354
4. Hickey L., Murphy A., Devaney D., Gillan J., Clarke T. The value of neonatal autopsy. Neonatology: 2012; 101 68 73
5. Shojania K. G., Burton E. C. The vanishing nonforensic autopsy. N Engl J Med: 2008; 358 873 875
6. Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Autopsy Working Party The decline of the hospital autopsy: a safety and quality issue for healthcare in Australia. Med J Aust: 2004; 180 281 285
7. Cartlidge P. H., Dawson A. T., Stewart J. H., Vujanic G. M. Value and quality of perinatal and infant postmortem examinations: cohort analysis of 400 consecutive deaths. BMJ: 1995; 310 155 158
8. McPhee S. J., Bottles K., Lo B., Saika G., Crommie D. To redeem them from death. Reactions of family members to autopsy. Am J Med: 1986; 80 665 671
9. Rose C., Evans M., Tooley J. Falling rates of perinatal postmortem examination: are we to blame? Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed: 2006; 91 F465
10. McDermott M. B. Obtaining consent for autopsy. BMJ: 2003; 327 804 806
11. Brodlie M., Laing I. A., Keeling J. W., McKenzie K. J. Ten years of neonatal autopsies in tertiary referral centre: retrospective study. BMJ: 2002; 324 761 763
12. Maniscalco W. M., Clarke T. A. Factors influencing neonatal autopsy rate. Am J Dis Child: 1982; 136 781 784
13. Meadow W., Reimshisel T., Lantos J. Birth weight-specific mortality for extremely low birth weight infants vanishes by four days of life: epidemiology and ethics in the neonatal intensive care unit. Pediatrics: 1996; 97 636 643
14. Meadow W., Frain L., Ren Y., Lee G., Soneji S., Lantos J. Serial assessment of mortality in the neonatal intensive care unit by algorithm and intuition: certainty, uncertainty, and informed consent. Pediatrics: 2002; 109 878 886
15. Weiner J., Sharma J., Lantos J., Kilbride H. How infants die in the neonatal intensive care unit: trends from 1999 through 2008. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med: 2011; 165 630 634
16. Gordijn S. J., Erwich J. J., Khong T. Y. Value of the perinatal autopsy: critique. Pediatr Dev Pathol: 2002; 5 480 488
17. Elder D. E., Zuccollo J. M. Autopsy after death due to extreme prematurity. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed: 2005; 90 F270 F272