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PDFAcute paediatrics
How reliable are SIDS rates?
Abstract
There is increasing concern with using SIDS as a diagnosis, especially where the postmortem examination reveals additional findings that may be contributory to the death exclusion. This report shows how varying the criteria for a diagnosis of SIDS significantly alters the SIDS rate in Ireland.
- NSIDR, National Sudden Infant Death Register
- SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome
- SUDI, sudden and unexpected death of an infant
- SUDI
- SIDS
- infant mortality
- death rate