Neonatal death
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
|---|---|
| METeOR identifier: | 327250 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
| Definition: | The death of a live birth which occurs during the first 28 days of life. This may be subdivided into early neonatal deaths, occurring during the first seven days of life, and late neonatal deaths, occurring after the seventh day but before 28 completed days of life. |
| Context: | Perinatal |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | Age at death during the first day of life (day zero) should be recorded in units of completed minutes or hours of life. For the second (day one), third (day two) and through 27 completed days of life, age at death should be recorded in days (WHO 1992). |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Data Development Committee |
| Origin: | International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, WHO, 1992 |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes |
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