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DEATHS FROM SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME ON PUBLIC HOLIDAYS AND WEEKENDS
Author(s) -
MITCHELL E. A.,
STEWART A. W.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1988.tb01646.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sudden infant death syndrome , demography , pediatrics , public health , sociology , nursing
Deaths from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) between 1979 and 1984 were tabulated by month for weekdays, weekends and public holidays. Examination of deaths by day of the week showed the weekend had more deaths than the weekdays (χ 2 = 26.3, df = 6, p = 0.0002) and that this pattern occurred in both the under three months and three‐11 months age group. There were 40 deaths on the 78 public holidays in the six years under study. Modelling the data showed that there was no difference between the number of deaths on holidays compared to weekends.