Ensuring the Comparability of Infant Mortality Rates: the Impact of the Management of Pre‐Viable and Peri‐Viable Births

Taken from Introduction…….The infant mortality rate is frequently used across the world as a key health indicator (https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/infant-mortality-rates.htm). It is assumed that lower rates are better and that variation between and within countries reflects a range of factors including maternal health, access to and quality of antenatal and neonatal care, and risk factor prevalence such as socio‐economic deprivation.