Rationale and recommendations for improving definitions, registration requirements and procedures related to fetal death and stillbirth

BJOG. 2017 Jul;124(8):1153-1157. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.14242. Epub 2016 Sep 7.

Authors

K S Joseph^{1

2}, M Basso², C Davies², L Lee³, D Ellwood⁴, D B Fell⁵, D Fowler⁶, B Kinniburgh³, M S Kramer⁷, K Lim^{1

2}, P Selke^{1

2}, D Shaw^{1

2}, A Sneddon⁴, A Sprague⁵, K Williams³

Affiliations

¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
² Children's and Women's Hospital and Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³ Perinatal Services BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁴ Gold Coast University Hospital and Griffith University, Southport, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia.
⁵ BORN Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁶ National Abortion Federation, Victoria, BC, Canada.
⁷ McGill University, Montreal, QU, Canada.

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MeSH terms

Female
Fetal Death*
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Population Surveillance*
Pregnancy
Stillbirth*
Vital Statistics*