Posts by mwherbs

I talked with someone in Oregon and 2 of the deaths were second twins... The births and deaths occured after transfer to the hospital- except for one baby was born at home.

We have a 7 day deadline- not 7 working days 7 days from the birth. We file paper- hospitals file direct-via-computer. So they arent taking in a sheaf of papers for the parents to fill out, at some point the parents have to sign...

Have the facts been checked? How? With the births being just last year probably every midwife or mom could say so There is a unique issue with anyone who attends births outside of the hospital- how is double filing avoided or...

Here is a worktable on neonatal and post neonatal deaths that occured in 2007- what is illustrative on this table is that by day or groupings of days the death rates are presented- so there are totals for day 2,3,4,5,6-13..... And from...

Again the CDC wonder pages are just now publishing 08 info, data sets that are more current run the risk of identifying info- the same would be incredibly true of mana stats- and I knew the details about one of the deaths in the Johnson...

You cant get current year stats that specific even from the CDC- because the parties can be identified And because of that I was wondering about he 6 losses last year in Oregon, are the numbers true? i have had hospitals file duplicate...

Malpractice is not the main issue, if it were then places like the Netherlands would not be having trouble with transfers - probably something to do with cluture... Like the studies that show workers in department stores - resent and...

and I am going to persist in being a pest about this -- there are tricky ways that neonatal mortality is being skirted-- so I think that there needs to now be an expanded definition of birth related deaths and instead of logging...

here is  link to the more recent UK birth place study-      http://www.netscc.ac.uk/hsdr/files/project/SDO_FR4_08-1604-140_V03.pdf

Sorry post studdering