RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Identification of cases of sudden infant death syndrome from death certificates.
JF Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
JO J Epidemiol Community Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 148
OP 151
DO 10.1136/jech.39.2.148
VO 39
IS 2
A1 J W Keeling
A1 J Golding
A1 B Sutton
YR 1985
UL http://jech.bmj.com/content/39/2/148.abstract
AB A method is proposed for identification of cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) from information available on death certificates. Deaths at ages between 7 days and 2 years, referred to a coroner, having certain specified causes of death codes, identified 160 of 169 cases of SIDS confirmed as such by a pathologist. The sensitivity of the method was 94% and the specificity was 97%.