BACKGROUND Perinatal (stillbirths and first week neonatal deaths) and neonatal (deaths in the first 4 weeks) mortality rates remain high in developing countries like Nepal. As most births and deaths occur in the community, an option to ascertain causes of death is to conduct verbal autopsy. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to classify and review the causes of stillbirths and neonatal...

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 1995-2000. METHODS A database consisting of fetal deaths and infant deaths occurring within the first 24...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the process of care provided to premature infants in a neonatal intensive care unit and the factors associated with their mortality. METHODS Cross-sectional retrospective study of premature infants in an intensive care unit between 2008 and 2010. The characteristics of the mothers and premature infants were described, and a bivariate analysis was performed on the followin...

OBJECTIVES To measure the neonatal autopsy rate at a tertiary referral centre and identify trends over the past decade. To identify factors that may influence the likelihood of consent being given for autopsy. To examine any discordance between diagnoses before death and at autopsy. DESIGN Retrospective review of patients' records. SETTING Tertiary neonatal referral centre affiliated to uni...

AIMS To investigate infant deaths in Cumbria, 1950-93, in relation to individual and community level socioeconomic status. METHODS Retrospective birth cohort study of all 283,668 live births and 4889 infant deaths in Cumbria, 1950-93. Community deprivation (Townsend score) and individual social class were used to estimate socioeconomic status. Logistic regression was used to investigate risk ...

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Introduction: In developing countries, many neonatal deaths still occur at home and the causes of these deaths are not ascertained. Objective: To identify the causes of stillbirths and neonatal deaths that occur at home and the factors that have contributed to these deaths. Materials and Method: We have used the method of verbal autopsy to investigate the stillbirths and neonatal deaths in nine...

UNLABELLED Theme: Complex health care and chronic disease management. INTRODUCTION Support for bereaved parents after the death of a baby in the neonatal period is variable in the UK. AIM To explore parents' experiences and perceptions of support needs during and following the death of their baby. METHODS An interpretative phenomenological study using unstructured interviews was undertake...

Abstract Objectives: to estimate the burden of parturients, fetuses and neonate’s severe morbidity mortality investigate association between maternal their conceptus outcomes. Methods: retrospective cohort 546 parturients in a university hospital, reference for high-risk pregnancy, metropolitan region II Rio de Janeiro State from 2015 2017. We classified according obstetric (OM) direct, indirec...