Irish neonatal mortality statistics for 2000

2003 ◽  
Vol 172 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Waters ◽  
SM Gormally
Keyword(s):  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Mortality Statistics

Neonatal Mortality Statistics

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-168
Author(s):  
SAM SHAPIRO ◽  
MARIE C. MCCORMICK ◽  
BARBARA STARFIELD
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Mortality Statistics ◽  
Total Reduction ◽  
Social Environmental

In Reply.— Sepkowitz uses data in our paper to question the influence of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) during the 1970s in reducing neonatal mortality. Part of the argument is based on the calculation that about 43% of the total reduction in such deaths between 1976 and 1978 to 1979 occurred among infants weighing more than 2,500 g at birth, a group for which "neonatal intensive care ... would seldom be necessary ..." Certainly there are many factors—social, environmental, and medical, including improved care in the antenatal and intrapartum periods—that have affected the reduction in neonatal mortality.

Analysis of Causes of Neonatal Death in the United States with Specific Emphasis on Fatal Hyaline Membrane Disease

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-575
Author(s):  
Robert H. Perelman ◽  
Philip M. Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Perinatal Asphyxia ◽  
Hyaline Membrane Disease ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Statistics ◽  
Neonatal Deaths ◽  
Period 2 ◽  
National Mortality ◽  
Hyaline Membrane ◽  
Average Contribution

National mortality statistics for hyaline membrane disease (HMD) and the respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and other major causalities were examined in this study for the years 1968 to 1978. A progressive reduction in total neonatal deaths began in 1971 such that only 56% as many newborn deaths occurred in 1978 as in 1968 (31,618 vs 66,456). In each of the 11 years surveyed, the majority of deaths occurred during the first four days of life, with more than half of the infants dying before 48 hours of age. HMD/RDS was the leading cause of death during nine of the 11 years analyzed, accounting for an average 19.5% of neonatal fatalities. Deaths associated with HMD/RDS increased for 1968 to 1971, plateaued, and progressively decreased in the ensuing years between 1974 and 1978. Thus, the percent of all neonatal deaths attributable to HMD/RDS increased from 14.7% in 1968 to a maximum of 21.3% in 1974, before declining to 17.5% in 1978. The average contribution of other major causes of death to overall neonatal mortality were: perinatal asphyxia, 13.4%; immaturity, 13.4%; and complications of pregnancy, 11.1%. These data indicate that: (1) despite the declining incidence of fatal HMD/RDS the disorder accounted for an increasing percent of total deaths through the later part of the 11-year period; (2) prevention and/or improved management of asphyxia made the most significant (29%) contribution to reduced neonatal mortality; (3) less change occurred in fatal complications of pregnancy, implying a continuing need for improved maternal/fetal care. Comparing national mortality statistics with those of Wisconsin suggests that further reduction in HMD/RDS death rates should be possible and could have a marked influence on national neonatal mortality statistics.

Importance of Using Standardized Birth Weight Increments to Report Neonatal Mortality Data

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-145
Author(s):  
Marcus C. Hermansen ◽  
Shirin Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Weight Group ◽  
Mortality Statistics ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Neonatal mortality statistics are frequently reported in 100-g increments of birth weight. We tabulated our mortality statistics using two methods of incrementation: 500 to 599 g, 600 to 699 g, 700 to 799 g, etc. (method A) and 501 to 600 g, 601 to 700 g, 701 to 800 g, etc (method B). In each 100-g weight group, the mortality was less using method B. The average reduction in mortality using method B was 4.1%. Use of the two different methods creates difficulty in making meaningful comparisons of various published reports. We recommend that all future studies use method A, as that method is more consistent with previous recommendations of the World Health Organization.

Irish Neonatal Mortality Statistics 2002

2005 ◽  
Vol 174 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Finan ◽  
S. M. Gormally
Keyword(s):  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Mortality Statistics

Neonatal Mortality Statistics

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Author(s):  
SAMUEL SEPKOWITZ
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
First Year ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Mortality Statistics

To the Editor.— Shapiro et al1 are properly cautious in attributing any decline in neonatal mortality to the use of neonatal intensive care. There was no decrease in mortality in 1976, the first year of their area-wide program, when compared with the 1974 to 1975 base line.2 Furthermore, the 17.9% decline in neonatal mortality between 1976 and 1978 to 1979 appears to be due to factors other than neonatal intensive care when weight-specific declines are considered. Among the larger babies, birth weight greater than 2,500 g, there was a 24.8% reduction in weight-specific neonatal mortality.

Errors in neonatal mortality statistics

1979 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-463
Author(s):  
Robert P. Nugent ◽  
Carl A. Keller
Keyword(s):  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Mortality Statistics

A Health Program's Effect on Neonatal Mortality in Eastern Kentucky

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Frederick P. Rivara ◽  
Gregory A. Culley ◽  
Durlin Hickok ◽  
Ronald L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Eastern Kentucky
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