Variation in stillbirth rates across high-income countries and large equity gaps within high-
income countries persist. If all high-income countries achieved stillbirth rates equal to the …

Background Stillbirth is a global health problem. The World Health Organization (WHO)
application of the International Classification of Diseases for perinatal mortality (ICD‐PM) …

Stillbirth rates in high-income countries declined dramatically from about 1940, but this
decline has slowed or stalled over recent times. The present variation in stillbirth rates …

Objective To determine the risk of recurrent stillbirth. Design Systematic review and meta-
analysis of cohort and case-control studies. Data sources Embase, Medline, Cochrane …

The Journal of Maternal–Fetal and Neonatal Medicine was born when two biomedical
journals merged: The Journal of Maternal–Fetal Medicine and Prenatal and Neonatal …

Background Audit and classification of stillbirths is an essential part of clinical practice and a
crucial step towards stillbirth prevention. Due to the limitations of the ICD system and lack of …

Background Globally, large numbers of children die shortly after birth and many of them
within the first 4 wk of life. This study aimed to determine the trends, patterns and causes of …

The invasion of trophoblasts into the uterine decidua and decidual vessels is critical for the
formation of placenta. The defects of placentation are related to the etiologies of …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the methods for assigning the cause of death for stillbirths enrolled
in the Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network (SCRN). METHODS: A complete evaluation …

Background Stillbirths need to count. They constitute the majority of the world's perinatal
deaths and yet, they are largely invisible. Simply counting stillbirths is only the first step in …