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Definition of Terms

PREVENTABLE DEATH
A childhood death is considered preventable if a prior intervention couth reasonably be expected to have altered the course of events such that the death would not have occurred.

UNEXPECTED DEATH
An unexpected death is defined as that which is not reasonably anticipated or which occurs under obscure circumstances.  This includes any death in which the child was not terminally ill with expected imminent death.  Examples include, but are not limited to, unintentional traumatic injury, homicide, suicide, asphyxia, aspiration, airway obstruction and infectious illness.

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