@article{ref1,
title="Avoidable factors in child death",
journal="Archives of disease in childhood",
year="1983",
author="Sherman, Y. and Matthew, D. J. and Boyd, R. D.",
volume="58",
number="11",
pages="872-877",
abstract="There were 131 deaths among children aged between birth and 14 years during a period of 18 months in one inner London area health authority. One hundred children died in hospital, 23 at home, and 8 elsewhere. Thirty three died of congenital, 46 of perinatal, and 34 of other medical causes. There were 18 violent deaths--16 among children over 1 year of age. Medical and social information, collected from analysis of records and interview with those involved, was considered by a review panel and the following conclusions were drawn: there was scope for prevention of congenital disease or malformation in only one of 33 cases; with routine pathological investigation the cause of death in postperinatal infancy was usually unclear--more detailed pathological investigation should be routinely available for the investigation of deaths in the first year of life; there were possible management failures in four of 8 non-malignant medical deaths in older children; malignant disease was promptly diagnosed; fatal accidents were almost entirely restricted to the children of families under marked psychosocial stress; and there was some evidence of faulty communication between health agencies and of the inappropriate routing of emergency admissions.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-9888",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}