Thursday, May 25, 2006

Release of Sudden, Unexplained Infant Death Investigation Reporting Form / JAMA, Vol. 295 No. 20, May 24/31, 2006

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/20/2351
"CDC, in collaboration with other federal agencies and organizations representing medical examiners, coroners, death-scene investigators, law enforcement officials, forensic nurses, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) researchers, infant death review experts, and parents of infants who died from SIDS, launched an initiative in 2004 to improve the investigation and reporting of sudden, unexplained infant deaths (SUIDs). As part of this effort, on March 1, 2006, CDC released the Sudden, Unexplained Infant Death Investigation (SUIDI) Reporting Form for state and local use in infant death-scene investigations."

The new form is shorter and simpler than the 1996 form. For example, most questions can be answered by checking the appropriate box or filling in the blank provided. The form is available online at http://www.cdc.gov/SIDS

Additional information on the SUID Initiative is available at http://www.cdc.gov/SIDS.