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Infanticide or SIDS, double jeopardy
  1. M MEHANNI,
  2. M MCDONNELL
  1. National Sudden Infant Death Register
  2. George's Hall
  3. The Children's Hospital
  4. Temple Street, Dublin 1
  5. Republic of Ireland
  6. Department of Paediatrics
  7. University College Dublin
  8. Temple Street, Dublin 1
    1. T MATTHEWS
    1. National Sudden Infant Death Register
    2. George's Hall
    3. The Children's Hospital
    4. Temple Street, Dublin 1
    5. Republic of Ireland
    6. Department of Paediatrics
    7. University College Dublin
    8. Temple Street, Dublin 1

      https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.82.4.336c

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        A recent article by Meadow1 documented some clinical features of 8l cases of infanticide in an attempt to identify particular features that might help. Paediatricians differentiate between natural and unnatural infant deaths.1 In table 1we have documented the prevalence of some of these features, highlighted by Meadow's study, in a contemporary SIDS database (165 cases of SIDS that occurred in the Republic of Ireland …

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        • Data are part of a national case control study (1994 to 1997) in the Republic of Ireland.