Trends in sudden infant death
- 17 June 1995
- Vol. 310 (6994) , 1602-1603
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6994.1602c
Abstract
# The few remaining sudden infant deaths are likely to be explicable and avoidable {#article-title-2} EDITOR,—E A Gilman and colleagues report a dramatic fall in the rate of the sudden infant death syndrome in England and Wales after a peak in 1988.1 This particularly occurred after the Department of Health issued advice at the end of 1991 that babies should not be placed to sleep prone; this instituted the “back to sleep” campaign. I have reported a campaign in the Scarborough district to avoid …Keywords
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