Preventing child deaths

doi:10.1136/bmj.39576.499907.80

BMJ 2008;336:1083-1084 (17 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39576.499907.80 (published 15 May 2008)

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Preventing child deaths

New report emphasises the need to review the circumstances ofdeath

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There is no question that preventing child mortality shouldbe a priority for all, and this is indeed so in the United Kingdom.¹With this objective, the Confidential Enquiry into Maternaland Child Health (CEMACH) has recently conducted a comprehensivereview of the deaths of all children aged from 28 days to 17years and 364 days in Wales, Northern Ireland, and three regionsof England (South West, North East, and Midlands).² This reviewpre-empts the mandatory review of all child deaths by localsafeguarding children boards in England from 1 April 2008.

The aims of the review were to identify and collect core dataon all deaths in the five targeted CEMACH regions for the calendaryear 2006, to review a subset of these deaths with a focus onidentifying avoidable factors, and to consider a national applicationof the methods. The review undertook a quantitative analysisof a . . . [Full text of this article]

Jane Freemantle, associate professor¹, Anne Read, honorary research fellow²

¹ Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia, ² Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, PO Box 855, West Perth, WA 6872, Australia

j.freemantle@unimelb.edu.au

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