OASIS – Is there an association between SIDS and infant hearing?
OASIS was an investigation to verify whether differences found in the hearing test shortly after birth were different in SIDS infants compared to age-matched surviving control infants and whether the SIDS demographic profile and risk factors found in our last study 10 years ago had changed.
CACH Team: Peter Blair, Peter Fleming, Jenny Ingram, Anna Pease
This was a retrospective case-control study of sudden unexpected deaths occurring in England between 2007 and 2017. The primary focus was collecting hearing data for infant deaths that remained unexplained (SIDS) from Public Health England along with the same data for surviving control infants recruited from maternity hospitals in Bristol and Birmingham in 2017. We also collected data on demographic characteristics and risk factors, uncontrolled data on older children (aged 1-3 years) who died unexpectedly (a group we know very little about) and monitored how well the death investigations were carried out following the recommendations we helped to incorporate in the Children’s Act in 2008.
Publications
Fleming, P. J., Pease, A. S., Ingram, J. C., Sidebotham, P., Cohen, M., Coombs, R., Ewer, A. K., Ward-Platt, M., Fox, J., Marshall, D., Lewis, A., Evason-Coombe, C. & Blair, P. S. Quality of investigations into unexpected deaths of infants and young children in England after implementation of national child death review procedures in 2008: a retrospective assessment. 28 Sep 2019, In : Archives of Disease in Childhood. 6 p.
Blair, P. S., Rubens, D., Pease, A., Mellers, D., Ingram, J., Ewer, A. K., Cohen, M. C., Sidebotham, P., Ward Platt, M., Coombs, R., Davis, A., Hall, A. & Fleming, P. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the routine otoacoustic emission infant hearing screening test: An epidemiological retrospective case-control study. 18 Jul 2019, In : BMJ Open. 9, 7, 9 p., e030026.
Pease, A., Blair, P., Ingram, J. & Fleming, P. Conversations with families about reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. May 2019, In : Journal of Health Visiting. 7, 5, p. 226-231 6 p.
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