TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Efforts to reduce stillbirths, deaths, and injuries in babies have failed, finds review JO - BMJ A1 - Eaton, Lynn SP - m1120 EP - m1120 VL - 368 IS - N2 -
The rate of stillbirths, brain injury, and avoidable deaths in babies in the UK has not changed in three years, findings from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) show. The president of the college, Edward Morris, has urged maternity units across the UK to learn from the latest report and act on its recommendations. “We owe it to each and every person affected to find out why these deaths and harms occur in order to prevent future cases where possible,” he said. The Each Baby Counts programme was launched by the RCOG in 2014 to try to reduce the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled as a result of incidents that happen during term labour. This third annual Each Baby Counts survey1 looked at local investigations of …
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LA - en SN - 0959-535X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1120 ID - ref1 ER -