Stillbirth definition

Stillbirth means an unintended fetal death occurring after a gestation period of 20 completed weeks or more or an unintended fetal death of a fetus with a weight of 350 or more grams.
Stillbirth means a stillbirth resulting from a person’s pregnancy, the pregnancy of a person’s current spouse or domestic partner, or another individual, if the person would have been a parent of a child born as a result of the pregnancy that ended in stillbirth.
Stillbirth means the delivery of a Stillborn Child.

Examples of Stillbirth in a sentence

  • Code P95, Stillbirth, is only for use in institutions that maintain separate records for stillbirths.

  • Maternal perception of fetal activity and late stillbirth risk: findings from the Auckland Stillbirth Study.

  • The 2014 International Conference of Stillbirth, SIDS and Baby Survival; Global Action Needed, September 18-21, 2014.

  • Stillbirth - The loss of a fetus during or following the 20th week of pregnancy.

  • In the case of a perinatal death (Stillbirth or Early Neonatal Death), this section should be left blank.


More Definitions of Stillbirth

Stillbirth a stillbirth resulting from an employee’s pregnancy, the pregnancy of the employee’s current spouse or domestic partner, or another individual, if the employee would have been a parent of a child or children born as a result of the pregnancy that ended in stillbirth.
Stillbirth means any complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a human child the gestational age of which is not less than 20 completed weeks, resulting in other than a live birth, as defined in this section, and which is not an induced termination of pregnancy.
Stillbirth means stillbirth as defined in section 136A.2.
Stillbirth means a birth after twenty (20) completed weeks gestation in which the child shows no evidence of life after complete birth;
Stillbirth means the birth of a child born after the 24th week of pregnancy (calculated from the beginning of the mother’s last menstrual period) which does not, at any time after being completely expelled from its mother, breathe or show any other sign of life and “stillborn child” shall be construed accordingly.
Stillbirth means an unintended fetal death occurring after a gestation period of twenty completed weeks, or an unintended fetal death of a fetus with a weight of three hundred fifty or more grams.2004 Acts, ch 1031, §3, 12Referred to in §144.31A 136A.3 Establishment of center for congenital and inherited disorders — duties.A center for congenital and inherited disorders is established within the department. The center shall do all of the following:1. Initiate, conduct, and supervise statewide screening programs for congenital and inherited disorders amenable to population screening.2. Initiate, conduct, and supervise statewide health care programs to aid in the early detection, treatment, prevention, education, and provision of supportive care related to congenital and inherited disorders.3. Develop specifications for and designate a central laboratory in which tests conducted pursuant to the screening programs provided for in subsection 1 will be performed.4. Gather, evaluate, and maintain information related to causes, severity, prevention, and methods of treatment for congenital and inherited disorders in conjunction with a central registry, screening programs, genetic health care programs, and ongoing scientific investigations and surveys.5. Perform surveillance and monitoring of congenital and inherited disorders to determine the occurrence and trends of the disorders, to conduct thorough and complete epidemiological surveys, to assist in the planning for and provision of services to children with congenital and inherited disorders and their families, and to identify environmental and genetic risk factors for congenital and inherited disorders.6. Provide information related to severity, causes, prevention, and methods of treatment for congenital and inherited disorders to the public, medical and scientific communities, and health science disciplines.7. Implement public education programs, continuing education programs for health practitioners, and education programs for trainees of the health science disciplines related to genetics, congenital disorders, and inheritable disorders.8. Participate in policy development to assure the appropriate use and confidentiality of genetic information and technologies to improve health and prevent disease.
Stillbirth or “stillborn child” means a fetal death;