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Regional and practitioner variations in reporting infant mortality

Clarissa Polen-Dea Department of Gynecologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Beena D. Kamath-Rayneb Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Division of Neonatology, Cincinnati, OH, USA;c American Academy of Pediatrics, Itasca, IL, USAView further author information
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Neera Goyald Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;e Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USAView further author information
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Emily DeFrancof Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USAView further author information
Pages 1278-1285 | Received 10 Dec 2019, Accepted 27 Mar 2020, Published online: 15 Apr 2020

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