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Yes. Johnson and Daviss do not use the neonatal death rate in the hospital group in 2000.
The NEONATAL death rate includes live born babies that died in the first 28 days of life.
In their BMJ article, Johnson and Daviss examine the COMBINED INTRAPARTUM AND NEONATAL death rate which includes babies that died during labor and live born babies that died in the first 28 days of life.
The COMBINED INTRAPARTUM AND NEONATAL death rate for planned home births in the BMJ article was 2.0 / 1000 in 2000.
The COMBINED INTRAPARTUM AND NEONATAL death rate for planned hospital births in the BMJ article was drawn from ten sources with rates ranging from 0.5 to 3.4 / 1000.
See Table 4 at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7505/1416?ehom
No. The neonatal death rate published by the CDC for white women with 2500+ g babies was 0.9/ 1000 in 2000.
See Table 6 at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr50/nvsr50_12.pdf
Tienchin
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