Differences in perinatal and infant mortality in high-income countries: artifacts of birth registration or evidence of true differences?

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• 作者：Paromita Deb-Rinker ; Juan Andrés León ; Nicolas L. Gilbert…
• 关键词：Birth registration ; Infant mortality ; Gestational age ; Birth weight ; Stillbirths ; Neonatal mortality
• 刊名：BMC Pediatrics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：443 KB
• 刊物主题：Pediatrics; Internal Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2431

文摘

Background Variation in birth registration criteria may compromise international comparisons of fetal and infant mortality. We examined the effect of birth registration practices on fetal and infant mortality rates to determine whether observed differences in perinatal and infant mortality rates were artifacts of birth registration or reflected true differences in health status.