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  • Title: The role of reviews of perinatal deaths.
    Author: King JF, Warren RA.
    Journal: Semin Fetal Neonatal Med; 2006 Apr; 11(2):79-87. PubMed ID: 16406847.
    Abstract:
    Systematic audit of stillbirths and neonatal deaths at an institutional and regional level is the first step in the descriptive epidemiology of perinatal mortality and a necessary means for identifying the causes of such deaths. Uniform classification systems within an organizational jurisdiction enable the identification of the major contributing categories, facilitate analysis, and enable consideration of possible interventions and strategies for prevention. This paper describes the application of the classification systems recently developed by the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ), as part of a perinatal audit package, to a cohort of 3485 perinatal deaths in Victoria over a 5-year period, 2000-2004. There are many other perinatal mortality audit systems in place in other jurisdictions, designed to produce the same result, i.e. a better understanding of the causes of perinatal mortality and the possibilities for prevention.
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