From lacop@umich.edu Mon Dec 16 08:18:45 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.168]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with SMTP id gBGGIjrw034712 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:18:45 -0800 Received: FROM mxu5.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Dec 16 08:18:44 2002 -0800 Received: from changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.17]) by mxu5.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with ESMTP id gBGGIhGo005857 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:18:44 -0800 Received: from ann-hsrd-copell.umich.edu (2.241.med.umich.edu [141.214.241.2] (may be forged)) by changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.2r) with ESMTP id LAA16885 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:18:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20021216110854.02a6ee98@l.imap.itd.umich.edu> X-Sender: lacop@l.imap.itd.umich.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:18:16 -0500 To: waphgis@u.washington.edu From: Laurel A Copeland Subject: Re: WAPHGIS: death classes for infant death In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Dick This is not exactly what you are after but is an interesting & relevant site: http://webserver04.dhec.state.sc.us/defn/birthdefn.htm ICD-10 definitions presented at http://frank.peinemann.bei.t-online.de/medicine/icdten.htm give "pre-term" as "less than 37 completed weeks" and "post-term" as "42 completed weeks and over" as well as "The perinatal period commences at 22 completed weeks (154 days) of gestation (the time when birth is normally 500 g), and ends seven completed days after birth." Similar information is at a CDC site: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00030918.htm -Laurel At 07:03 AM 12/16/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Concerning infant deaths again > >In SAS format representation, I am using for birth weight > >value birthwgt > >low -999 = "<1000 gms" 1000-1499 = "1000-1499" >1500-2499 = "1500-2499" 2500-4499 = "2500-4499" >4500-high = ">4499" . ="missing"; > >to divide up the birth weights, which seems to be the consensus for >classifying birth weights, sort of a very low, ..., macrosome scale, > >On other classifications: > >1. What are the "accepted" periods (short, normal, long) for gestation? >Maybe it would be best to take my birth data (1.2 million records) and use >mean +/- some fraction of the standard deviation? Maybe there is some >developmental marker that is more important to a pediatrician than using >absolutely, the number of weeks) > >2. Length of the perinatal period? > >Thanks, > >Richard Hoskins >Asst Secretary's Office >EHSPHL, WA DOH >1102 Quince Street >Olympia, WA 98504-7812 >(360) 236-4270 > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu >[mailto:WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Michael S. Zdeb >Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 5:31 AM >To: waphgis@u.washington.edu >Subject: Re: WAPHGIS: death classes for infant death > > > >Has anyone mentioned that infant deaths are not classified by cause, rather >by age at death? Any death at less than one-year of age is an infant death >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 > > > > > > "HealthMaps" > > om> cc: > Sent by: Subject: WAPHGIS: death >classes for infant death > WAPHGIS-owner@u.was > hington.edu > > > 12/14/02 11:26 AM > Please respond to > waphgis > > > > > > > >I have an Excel spread sheet which has the 100 or so causes of death for >infants and for everyone else with the ICD9 and corresponding ICD10 codes >and comparability ratios. Several of you sent in various pieces of this, >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 email 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 .