Year | Live births | Total defects | Suspected before discharge | Detected after discharge | |||
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Life threatening | Other | Percentage | Life threatening | Other | |||
*χ2 test for 1996–9 v 2000–3 = 11.5 (p<0.01); and for year on year trend = 15.9 (p<0.025). | |||||||
§Given that life threatening defects are uncommon, a study this size cannot be used to show that more than two thirds of all such defects are really capable of recognition before discharge. | |||||||
1996–1999 | 7756 | 88 (1.1%) | 8 | 59 | 76 | 4 | 17 |
2000–2003 | 6816 | 88 (1.3%) | 8 | 75 | 94* | 0§ | 5 |