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NJDOH 7 Major Causes of Infant Death

In order to provide a consistent grouping and ranking standard, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) prepared a List of 130 Selected Causes of Infant Death. Seventy-one causes on that list were designated as eligible to be ranked as leading causes of infant death (List of 71 Rankable Causes of Death). NJDOH's Center for Health Statistics derived the List of 7 Major Causes of Infant Death from the list of 71 causes by grouping rare but rankable causes as well as unrankable causes into a residual group for ease of use and tabulation (#8 in the table below). For more information about the NCHS rankings see ICD-10 Cause-of-Death Lists for Tabulating Mortality Statistics on the NCHS website.

ICD-9 was used to code death causes from 1979 through 1998. ICD-9 codes and comparability ratios are included below for comparison to pre-1999 mortality data.

A full list of ICD codes is available at https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en.

Cause of Death

ICD-9 Codes

ICD-10 Codes

Comparability Ratio

Standard Error

Note

1 Newborn affected by maternal complications of pregnancy761P011.02950.0138
2 Newborn affected by complications of placenta, cord and membranes762P021.04700.0128
3 Disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight, not elsewhere classified765P071.10600.0064
4 Respiratory distress of newborn769P221.02570.0131
5 Bacterial sepsis of newborn771.8P360.91440.0272
6 Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities740-759Q00-Q990.90640.0057Birth defects/ Congenital anomalies
7 Sudden infant death syndrome798.0R951.03620.0040SIDS
8 All other diseases and external causes--Residual----

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