Classification system for the sudden unexpected infant death case registry and its application

Pediatrics

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shapiro Mendoza, Carrie K ^a   Camperlengo, Lena ^a   Ludvigsen, Rebecca ^a   Cottengim, Carri ^b   Anderson, Robert N ^c   Andrew, Thomas ^d   Covington, Theresa ^e   Hauck, Fern R ^f   Kemp, James ^g   MacDorman, Marian ^c  

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

^b DB Consulting Group Inc   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^d Office of Chief Medical Examiner   (United States)

^e Michigan Public Health Institute   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidental suffocation; Child death review; Classification; Infant mortality; Sudden infant death syndrome; Sudden unexpected infant death; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LAW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP QUALITY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SUFFOCATION;

ACCIDENTAL SUFFOCATION; CHILD DEATH REVIEW; CLASSIFICATION; INFANT MORTALITY; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SUDDEN UNEXPECTED INFANT DEATH; SURVEILLANCE;

ALGORITHMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; REGISTRIES; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904187011     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-0180     Document Type: Article

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