The 1999 annual report of the Regional Infant and Child Mortality Review Committee.
The 1999 Annual Report of the Regional Infant and Child Mortality Review Committee (RICMRC) is presented. Our Regional (Minnehaha, Lincoln, and Turner Counties) incidence for Sudden Infant Death (SIDS) continues to significantly exceed the national rate. In this study, SIDS is strongly associated with prone sleeping and sleeping on soft surfaces or bedding. The Back-to-Sleep campaign that has been an important part of lowering the national SIDS rate appears to have been less successful in our region. The Regional Infant Child Mortality Review Committee therefore has elected to serve not only as a data collection committee, but has also actively engaged in community education programs directed towards providing a safer environment for our children.
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Department of Laboratory Medicine, USD School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, USA.
Wilson
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D000056:Accident Prevention; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D013023:South Dakota; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control