TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Pediatric deaths in Kuala Lumpur
JO  - Medicine, science, and the law
A1  - Kumar, Vishwajeet
A1  - Jumali, Ismail Bin
SP  - 301
EP  - 309
VL  - 46
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0025-8024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -