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The New Zealand Cot Death Study: some legal and ethical issues
E A Mitchell1, I B Hassall, R Scragg
1University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The New Zealand Cot Death Study is a 3 year multicentre case-control study aimed at identifying the risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The paper describes some of the legal and ethical issues which arose in the planning, implementation and analysis of the study.