Pennsylvania
Child Death Review
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Preventability: When a local team performs a review, one of the goals is to determine if the death  was preventable.  " A Child's death is preventable if the community or an individual could reasonably have done something that would have changed the circumstances that led to the death."   32.5% of deaths review in the 2011 Annual Report were determined Probably Preventable) 


Policy Recommendations:
The process of CDR sparks team members to discuss the potential for prevention of future deaths.  These recommendations have driven environmental changes, agency staff education and improved protocols for agency collaboration and community-wide prevention efforts.  

2011 Policy Recommendation

Infant Safe Sleep

Teen Driving

Suicide

Child Abuse and Neglect

Injury Prevention

Poisoning

Prematurity

Farm Safety

Weapons-related

Infant Death Scene Investigation