PERINATAL MORTALITY—THE WOODS AND THE TREES

[摘要] "Practicing Physicians, not uncommonly, are suspicious of statistical reports and rates and one often hears pejorative comments about any statistics and all statisticians." So wrote Dr. Wegman in his latest "Annual Summary of Vital Statistics,"1 and most readers will only need to look within themselves to see what he was writing about. Yet, suspicious as we may be we can seldom resist looking at statistics about our own particular pediatric problems and even occasionally making some tabulations of our own data.This is certainly true of one who has spent more Friday noon hours than he cares to think about in a weekly conference on the fetal and neonatal deaths of a large maternity hospital.

[学科分类] 儿科学