From msz03@health.state.ny.us Mon Dec 16 05:31:23 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.137]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with SMTP id gBGDVMrw024306 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:31:22 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Dec 16 05:31:21 2002 -0800 Received: from pony.health.state.ny.us (pony.health.state.ny.us [192.135.176.19]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with ESMTP id gBGDVL8I023846 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:31:21 -0800 Received: NYS DOH Electronic Mail System Subject: Re: WAPHGIS: death classes for infant death To: waphgis@u.washington.edu X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.8 June 18, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Michael S. Zdeb" Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:31:05 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on MailGate/Server/DOH(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 12/16/2002 08:31:09 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Has anyone mentioned that infant deaths are not classified by cause, ra= ther by age at death? Any death at less than one-year of age is an infant d= eath regardless of cause. Yes, the ICD causes that are referred to as "Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period" (plus "Malformations")= pick up most infant deaths, However, they do not pick up all deaths at= < 1 year. Mike Zdeb New York State Department of Health ESP Tower - Room 1811 Albany, NY 12237 P/518-473-2855 F/630-604-1475 = =20 "HealthMaps" = =20 =20 om> cc: = =20 Sent by: Subject: WAPHGIS: dea= th classes for infant death =20 WAPHGIS-owner@u.was = =20 hington.edu = =20 = =20 = =20 12/14/02 11:26 AM = =20 Please respond to = =20 waphgis = =20 = =20 = =20 I have an Excel spread sheet which has the 100 or so causes of death f= or infants and for everyone else with the ICD9 and corresponding ICD10 co= des and comparability ratios. Several of you sent in various pieces of thi= s, and some of it had already been complied by my agency's health stats unit. If you would like to have a copy, please let me know. Richard E Hoskins PhD MPH Spatial Epidemiology Unit WA State Dept of Health 1102 Quince Street Olympia, WA 98504-7812 richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov GMT -8 to join WAPHGIS: send =A0email to listproc@u.washington.edu with the following request: subscribe WAPHGIS Your Name new on-line GIS, geography & health journal: http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/start.asp = .