A Service evaluation of a hospital child death review process to elucidate understanding of contributory factors to child mortality and inform practice in the English National Health Service.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To describe a novel approach to hospital mortality meetings to elucidate understanding of contributory factors to child death and inform practice in the National Health Service. DESIGN:All child deaths were separately reviewed at a meeting attended by professionals across the healthcare pathway, and an assessment was made of contributory factors to death across domains intrinsic to the child, family and environment, parenting capacity and service delivery. Data were analysed from a centrally held database of records. SETTING:All child deaths in a tertiary children's hospital between 1 April 2010 and 1 April 2013. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Descriptive data summarising contributory factors to child deaths. RESULTS:95 deaths were reviewed. In 85% cases, factors intrinsic to the child pr

SUBMITTER: Magnus DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5857677 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature