Validation of the registered underlying causes of stillbirth
Author:
- L EdouardLEL Edouard
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 36 (3) , 231-234
Abstract
Clinical case notes were used to validate the registered causes of 200 stillbirths. The diagnoses were concordant in 69% of cases using a 14-category classification of fetal death, discrepancies being mainly due to available information not being used in the assignment of cause of stillbirth. Excluding cases of congenital malformation, 34% of stillbirths occurred in labour.Keywords
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