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JAMA. 2006;295:2351.

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MMWR. 2006;55:212-213

CDC, in collaboration with other federal agencies and organizations representing medical examiners, coroners, death-scene investigators, law enforcement officials, forensic nurses, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) researchers, infant death review experts, and parents of infants who died from SIDS, launched an initiative in 2004 to improve the investigation and reporting of sudden, unexplained infant deaths (SUIDs). As part of this effort, on March 1, 2006, CDC released the Sudden, Unexplained Infant Death Investigation (SUIDI) Reporting Form for state and local use in infant death-scene investigations. The SUIDI Reporting Form replaces the Investigation Report Form that accompanied the 1996 Guidelines for the Death Scene Investigation of Sudden, Unexplained Infant Death.¹

Each year in the United States, approximately 4,500 infants die suddenly of no immediately obvious cause. Half of these SUIDs are attributed to SIDS, the leading cause of SUID and of all deaths among infants aged 1-12 months. By definition, . . . [Full Text of this Article]