Article Related content Article metrics Rapid responses Response Rapid Response: Re: Association between day of delivery and obstetric outcomes: observational study I read with interest your paper. Why did you not separate the stillbirth and first week death rates? Perinatal Mortality is a crude statistic In your discussion you suggested that the first day neonatal deaths were higher at weekends but you gave no separate data about the stillbirths. Yours etc Competing interests: No competing interests 27 November 2015 David James Emeritus Professor of Fetomaternal Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK Nottingham
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Re: Association between day of delivery and obstetric outcomes: observational study
I read with interest your paper.
Why did you not separate the stillbirth and first week death rates?
Perinatal Mortality is a crude statistic
In your discussion you suggested that the first day neonatal deaths were higher at weekends but you gave no separate data about the stillbirths.
Yours etc
Competing interests: No competing interests