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PREVENTING FUTURE CHILD DEATHS THROUGH EFFECTIVE AND ACTIONABLE CHILD DEATH REVIEW TEAM PREVENTION RECOMMENDATIONS

Presenter: Sandra Alexander, Brian D. Johnston

Abstract Category: Prevention

Instruction Level: Intermediate

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Description:      

Challenges faced by child death review (CDR) teams in making actionable prevention recommendations, strategies to facilitate effective prevention, and participant practice in turning CDR data into effective, actionable recommendations.

Abstracts: 

The mission of child death review (CDR) is to better understand how and why children die, to use those findings to take action to prevent future similar deaths, and to improve the health and safety of all children.  Over the years, many dedicated multidisciplinary CDR teams have conducted “social autopsies” on child deaths in their communities and states.  They have learned a lot about why and how children are dying.  This is a first step to prevention.  However, to prevent future deaths, this information must be translated into solid, actionable, and evidence informed prevention recommendations that can be heard and understood by the people who can make needed systems, policy, product and /or practice changes.  This workshop will review challenges faced by CDR teams in accomplishing this mission and will discuss strategies and tools that can facilitate more effective prevention recommendations in CDR.  Participants will have an opportunity in the workshop to take CDR data and turn it into an effective, actionable prevention recommendation.