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Michael H. Malloy, MD, MS

JAMA. 1998;280:373-374.

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Infant sleep position has been a concern of parents for decades, but only in this decade has it become a topic of public health interest and importance. In the past, infant sleep position undoubtedly has been affected by cultural traditions, which may have been influenced by empirical observations of infant sleep patterns and perhaps by nonsystematic but astute observations of associations of adverse infant health outcomes with particular sleep positions. However, current research has provided the opportunity to define more clearly adverse outcomes associated with infant sleep position and to understand factors associated with and affecting a parent's decision to choose a position in which to place an infant for sleep.

In 1992, after reviewing the literature on the relationship between prone sleep positioning and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force on Infant Positioning and SIDS recommended that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

From the Department of Pediatrics/Division of Neonatology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

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