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Acute paediatrics
How reliable are SIDS rates?
  1. K M Sheehan1,
  2. C McGarvey3,
  3. D M Devaney1,
  4. T Matthews2
  1. 1Department of Pathology, The Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin, Ireland
  2. 2University College Dublin Department of Paediatrics, The Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin, Ireland
  3. 3The National Sudden Infant Death Register, Dublin, Ireland
  1. Correspondence to:
    Prof. T Matthews
    UCD Department of Paediatrics, The Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland; tommattiol.ie

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

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2004.062463

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