Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues
Appendix 3: Causes of neonatal and post-neonatal death
Death certificates record the underlying cause of death of an individual. For neonatal and postneonatal cases, these causes of death are grouped by the Office of National Statistics into ten main groups. The table below gives the number of deaths assigned to each group for babies born in England and Wales in 2002; the total number of live births in England and Wales in this year was 596,122. Neonatal death refers to death 0–27 days after birth; post-neonatal death refers to death 28–364 days after birth.
Causes of neonatal and post-neonatal death