TY - JOUR T1 - Child mortality: how does the USA compare? JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 236 LP - 236 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-316813 VL - 104 IS - 3 A2 - , Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/104/3/236.abstract N2 - In March 2015, an Archives editorial featured a Lancet paper describing neonatal, infant and child mortality trends, comparing UK data to other European countries and Canada, but not the USA (doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2014–3 07 678). The UK was improving more slowly than the comparator countries. Now American authors have done something similar (Khan S et al doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.3317). Using the US National Centre for Health Statistics database, and comparing to equivalent data from England/Wales (E&W) and Canada, they found that the US is actually doing much worse than the UK. They looked at … ER -