Confidential paediatric inquiry into neonatal deaths in Wessex, 1981 and 1982.

Smoking and the sudden infant death syndrome: results from 1993-5 case-control study for confidential inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy. Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths Regional Coordinators

A confidential enquiry into cases of neonatal encephalopathy.

OBJECTIVES To assess the quality of care and timing of possible asphyxial events for infants with neonatal encephalopathy; to compare the quality of care findings with those relating to the deaths from the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI); and to assess whether the confidential enquiry method is a useful clinical governance tool for investigating morbidity. ...

The Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with intellectual disabilities in the UK: a population-based study

BACKGROUND The Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with intellectual disabilities in England was commissioned to provide evidence about contributory factors to avoidable and premature deaths in this population. METHODS The population-based Confidential Inquiry reviewed the deaths of people with intellectual disabilities aged 4 years and older who had been registered with a ge...

Evaluation of advanced neonatal nurse practitioners: confidential enquiry into the management of sentinel cases.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of the neonatal care delivered by an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner led service at Ashington Hospital, Northumberland. SETTING Maternity service with no resident paediatric medical input. DESIGN Comparison of quality measures on sentinel cases with five comparator hospitals using modified confidential enquiry. RESULTS On six out of seven dimensions,...

The provision of safe surgery for children.

In 1977 a grant was given to the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust in order to carry out a confidential inquiry into deaths associated with anaesthesia. After this study a recommendation was made that future epidemiological studies should involve both anaesthetists and surgeons. The most recent report studied the deaths of child...