
@article{ref1,
title="Pediatric deaths in Kuala Lumpur",
journal="Medicine, science, and the law",
year="2006",
author="Kumar, Vishwajeet and Jumali, Ismail Bin",
volume="46",
number="4",
pages="301-309",
abstract="The main aim of this study was to determine the causes and epidemiological aspects of pediatric death. Data was collected on 143 cases of paediatric death from a total of 2,895 autopsies performed in University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), Kuala Lumpur, over a five-year period from 2000 to 2004. There were 78 males and 65 females. The largest number of cases (32.9%) were stillborn. The highest proportion of cases (30.1%) were Chinese. The majority of cases of paediatric death were non-traumatic (74.8%) of which intrauterine death (IUD) was the most common (32.9%). Amongst the traumatic deaths (25.2%), accidental injury (23.8%) was observed in the majority of cases.   <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0025-8024",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}