Association of Unexpected Newborn Deaths With Changes in Obstetric and Neonatal Process of Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The death of a healthy term infant may signal patient safety and quality issues. Various initiatives aim to encourage clinicians to learn from these events, but little evidence exists regarding how exposure to an unexpected newborn death may alter clinician practice.

Objective

To examine the association between an unexpected newborn death and changes in obstetric and newborn procedures that may be used in response to potential fetal distress or newborn complications.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used difference-in-differences analysis of 2011 to 2017 US vital statistics data from 477 US counties experiencing an unexpected newborn death during the study period. All in-hospital live births in the 477 counties during the study p

SUBMITTER: Han D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11902236 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature