Infant Mortality: Development of a Proposed Update to the Dollfus Classification of Infant Deaths.

CONCLUSION: The Dollfus classification system can be adapted for use with ICD-10 codes to create a comprehensive, etiology-based profile of infant deaths. The potential benefits of using Dollfus logic to guide perinatal mortality reduction strategies, particularly to maternal and child health programs and other initiatives focused on improving infant health, warrant further examination of this method's use in perinatal mortality surveillance. PMID: 26556935 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: Public Health Reports - November 14, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Public Health Rep Source Type: research