Heads UP FIMR Programs! Two New NFIMR Projects Underway in 08!
NFIMR is working on 2 new projects: 1)      Revision of the NFIMR Brochure – Making Healthy Communities Happen and 2)      Development of a FIMR PSA for use by local communities If y...(click title to continue)

New 2008 NFIMR Software and Data Abstraction Forms (Sep 22, 2008)
HEADS UP FIMR programs; New NFIMR Software is available! This 2008 application matches all the new 2008 NIFMR data abstraction and maternal interview forms, captures the case review team findings and creates reports. Software is available at no char...(click title to continue)

MCH Disaster Preparedness Guidelines and Resources
  Heads UP!! Detailed hurricane preparation suggestions for families with newborns can be found at: MOD: http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/298_16943.asp and CDC’s Safe Motherhood at http://www.cdc.gov/Features/Emergencies/Pre...(click title to continue)

New ACOG/AAP Guidelines for Perinatal Care Promote Value of FIMR (Mar 20, 2008)
Heads UP FIMR Programs!! The new sixth edition of the joint ACOG/AAP Guidelines for Perinatal Care has been published. The Guidelines are considered as one of the essential perinatal texts for obstetric and pediatric providers and MCH public healt...(click title to continue)

NFIMR reports to Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality (SACIM) (Jan 29, 2008)
Kathleen Buckley, NFIMR Program Director, and Dr. Jodi Shaefer from Johns Hopkins SON presented to the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality (SACIM) on January 23. The presentation, Fetal and Infant Mortality Review: Using Qualitative ...(click title to continue)

New: Joint ASIP and NFIMR Bibliography (Mar 29, 2007)
The Association of SIDS and Other infant Deaths (ASIP) and the National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program has completed their joint annual 06 - 07 update to the bibliography on grief and beraevement following pregnancy loss and p...(click title to continue)

Bibliographies New! Women and Disasters
The NFIMR Resource Center maintains an annually updated list of bibliographies containing topics of interest to FIMR projects.   Because of the effect of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we have added a new topic New NFIMR Bibliography: Th...(click title to continue)

The FIMR Process: Featured in New National Publication! (Dec 5, 2006)
    The United Health Foundation has just released it annual America ’s Health Rankings – A Call for People&Their Communities for 2006.   The report, which is produced by United Health Foundation in partners...(click title to continue)

New Directory of FIMR Programs (Nov 14, 2006)
FIMR programs have always said that no written instructions about FIMR can substitute for the ongoing communication and collaboration among the communities implementing the process. Across the country today, there are approximately 200 local FIMR pr...(click title to continue)

New Resource! Abstracting FIMR Data (Nov 14, 2006)
 Collecting Data for Fetal and Infant Mortality Reviews (FIMR) was developed as a final graduate project by Ms Dani Noell, ARNP/RNC for the masters degree of Nursing at the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fl. Ms Noell is an expe...(click title to continue)

NEW FIMR Home Interviewing Web Cast (Jul 18, 2006)
View the webcast or print the text of the home interview webcast featuring Jodi Shaefer and Patt Young

Current FIMR Newsletters
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National Evaluation of the FIMR Process
The national evaluation described in an MCH Journal supplement was conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Women's and Children's Health Policy Center and sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) . ...(click title to continue)

2004 NFIMR Conference Program Posters (Dec 4, 2004)
Click on links below to view posters and abstracts. Greatest Show on Birth    Tina Basel Enhancing the Review Process through Maternal Interviews                                                                            Peter Barnard ...(click title to continue)

Fetal and Infant Mortality in the United States (Jul 30, 2000)
Index Perinatal mortality Fetal mortality Infant mortality Birth-weight specific infant mortality Calculating fetal and infant mortality rates Other models for statistical analysis Perinatal mortality Allston, AA. Improving women's heath...(click title to continue)

FIMR and Child Fatality Review: Opportunities for Local Collaboration (Jun 1, 2000)
Introduction About Infant and Child Mortality What is Fetal and Infant Mortality Review What is Child Fatality Review Similarities Differences Working Together Models of Community FIMR and CFR Collaboration References and Bibliography I...(click title to continue)

NFIMR Consortium Member Organizations
Purpose of the NFIMR Consortium: Serving as an advisory committee to the national FIMR program, the consortium represents national organizations that are involved in a variety of relevant activities of interest to the national FIMR program. The c...(click title to continue)