Variation in classification of live birth with newborn period death versus fetal death at the local level may impact reported infant mortality rate

BACKGROUND: To better understand factors that may impact infant mortality rates (IMR), we evaluated the consistency across birth hospitals in the classification of a birth event as either a fetal death or an early neonatal (infant) death using natality data from North Carolina for the years 1995–200...

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Autores principales: Woods, Charles R, Davis, Deborah Winders, Duncan, Scott D, Myers, John A, O’Shea, Thomas Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4000129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24755366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-108

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