All-Cause Mortality Among Children in the US Foster Care System, 2003-2016

JAMA Pediatr. 2020 Sep 1;174(9):896-898. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0715.

Abstract

This cross-sectional analysis uses data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System to investigate mortality rates among children in the US foster care system compared with those of the general population.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child, Foster / statistics & numerical data*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Foster Home Care / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Registries*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Survival Rate / trends
  • United States / epidemiology