Perinatal death recording: time for a change?
| Autor: | M. McC. Reid, B G McClure, J W Ritchie, Henry L. Halliday, Maureen J Scott |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Birth weight Gestational Age Northern Ireland World Health Organization Death Certificates Pregnancy Infant Mortality medicine Humans Fetal Death General Environmental Science Cause of death business.industry General Engineering Infant Newborn Gestational age General Medicine Infant Low Birth Weight Certificate Infant mortality Low birth weight General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female Death certificate medicine.symptom business Live birth Demography Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Europe PubMed Central |
| ISSN: | 0267-0623 |
| Popis: | The new perinatal death certificate proposed by the World Health Organisation was examined in relation to existing measures for recording perinatal death statistics and also with regard to new information gathered. Present procedures appear to underestimate the number of perinatal deaths by roughly 10%, though late registrations may lower this figure slightly. The use of a minimum birth weight as the criterion for inclusion in perinatal statistics removed much of the uncertainty associated with definitions of live birth and stillbirth. The new certificate led to duplication of some information already recorded through birth notification yet failed to provide information on some other factors generally considered relevant to perinatal mortality. The format proposed for recording cause of death provided a more logical presentation of events. Standardizing birth information recorded on all infants, modifying death certificates, and developing efficient record-linkage schemes would be more valuable than introducing the WHO certificate. Useful interpretation of the meaning of the characteristics of infants dying in the perinatal period awaits these timely changes. |
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