TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Infant mortality due to unintentional suffocation among infants younger than 1 year in the United States, 1999-2015 JO - JAMA pediatrics A1 - Gao, Yuyan A1 - Schwebel, David C. A1 - Hu, Guoqing SP - 388 EP - 390 VL - 172 IS - 4 N2 -
Unintentional suffocation is largely preventable, but it caused 87% of deaths due to unintentional injury among children younger than 12 months in the United States in 2015. During the past 2 decades, substantial public and private efforts have been devoted to preventing mortality from infant suffocation, especially through safer sleeping. Based on recently updated data, we examined mortality from unintentional suffocation from 1999 to 2015 in the United States among infants younger than 1 year....
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LA - en SN - 2168-6211 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.4887 ID - ref1 ER -