Table 1 Analysis of death certificates to establish cause of death and life-limiting condition
Death certificate analysis age 0 to 19 years 2002-7 | Overall Picture | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1052 deaths | |||||||
569/1052 (54%) deaths from life-limiting conditions | |||||||
887 causes of death recorded | |||||||
196/887 (22%) causes of death were considered life-limiting. | |||||||
420/887 children died from 176 life-limiting conditions | ICD 10 Chapter [27] | ||||||
II - C or D | I- A | IV- E | VI- G | IX- I | X – XVI J or P | XVII- Q | |
neoplasms, diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs; certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | infectious and parasitic diseases | endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease | diseases of the nervous system | diseases of the circulatory system), | diseases of the respiratory system; certain conditions originating in the perinatal period) | congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | |
104/420 (25%) | 50/420 (12%) | 24/420 (6%) | 88/420 (21%) | 36/420 (9%) | 30/420 (7%) | 54/420 (13%) | |
Only seven individual life-limiting conditions (4%) caused more than 10 deaths in children | |||||||
169/887 neonatal deaths from life-limiting conditions | ICD 10 Chapter [27] | ||||||
XVI- P | XVII- Q | ||||||
certain conditions originating in the perinatal period | congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | ||||||
92/169 (54%) | 73/169 (43%) | ||||||
97% deaths were caused by only two life-limiting conditions | |||||||