© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SHORT REPORT
Hospital accessibility and infant death risk
1 School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Henry Cotton Campus, 15–21 Webster Street, Liverpool L3 2ET, UK
2 Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Group, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle NE1 4LP, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr T Dummer
School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Henry Cotton Campus, 15–21 Webster Street, Liverpool L3 2ET, UK; t.dummer{at}livjm.ac.uk
This study of all 4889 infant deaths within the cohort of all 287 993 births in Cumbria, northwest England (1950–93), found no evidence of an increased risk of infant death with greater travel time to hospitals.
Keywords: infant death; hospital accessibility; GIS; epidemiology
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
This article has been cited by other articles:
-
Muir, M.
(2005). Hygieia. J. Epidemiol. Community Health
59: 612-612
[Full Text] -
(2004). Risk of infant death or stillbirth does not change with distance to hospital. Qual Saf Health Care
13: 238-238
[Full Text]
eLetters:
Read all eLetters
- Hospital Accessibility and Infant Death Risk (March 2004)
- Deborah A Lee, et al.
- ADC Online, 5 May 2004 [Full text]
- Authors' response to Lee et al
- Trevor J B Dummer, et al.
- ADC Online, 21 May 2004 [Full text]
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Read responses to this article
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in ADC Online
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
