Stillbirth as left truncation for early neonatal death in California, 1989-2015: a time-series study

• Main Authors: Tim A. Bruckner (Author), Samantha Gailey (Author), Abhery Das (Author), Alison Gemmill (Author), Joan A. Casey (Author), Ralph Catalano (Author), Gary M. Shaw (Author), Jennifer Zeitlin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Some scholars posit that attempts to avert stillbirth among extremely preterm gestations may result in a live birth but an early neonatal death. The literature, however, reports no empirical test of this potential form of left truncation. We examine whether annual cohorts deliver...