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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Registry Manag. 2014 Spring;41(1):13–18.

Table 4.

Reasons for excluding stillbirths identified through fetal death certificiates as occurring at 20 or more weeks of gestation, metropolitan Atlanta, 2006 and 2008

Reason for Exclusion N (%)
Medical record indicated less than 20 weeks* 45 (39.5)
Duplicate FDC 34 (29.8)
Live birth 20 (17.5)
Non-resident** 13 (11.4)
Wrong year of FDC 2 (1.8)
Total 114 (100.0)

FDC, fetal death certificates

*

Medical record review clearly indicated the death occurred prior to 20 weeks of gestation indicating that the death was misclassified as a death occurring at less than 20 weeks on the FDC.

**

Medical records documented these mothers as not residing in the metropolitan-Atlanta surveillance catchment area