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State Technical Assistance Team
Missouri Child Fatality Review Program

Criteria For Child Fatality Review

  • Sudden unexplained death, age less than one year

  • Unexplained/undetermined manner of death, age greater than one year

  • Children's Division history of the decedent or other persons in the residence

  • Decedent in Children's Division custody

  • Possible inadequate supervision

  • Possible malnutrition or delay in seeking medical care

  • Possible suicide

  • Possible inflicted injury

  • Firearm injury

  • Injury not witnessed by person in charge at time of injury

  • Confinement (i.e. refrigerator)

  • Suspicious/criminal activity

  • Drowning

  • Suffocation or strangulation

  • Poisoning/chemical/drug ingestion

  • Severe unexplained injury

  • Pedestrian/bicycle/driveway injury

  • Motor vehicle injury

  • Suspected sexual assault

  • Fire injury

  • Autopsy by certified child death pathologist

  • Panel discretion

  • Other suspicious findings (injuries such as electrocution, crush, or fall)

08/16/05

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