Assessing and improving child death review team recommendations.

Background: Child death review teams (CDRTs) are multi-agency, multidisciplinary teams that review the circumstances surrounding child deaths. Although the potential of CDRTs to promote systems improvement and prevention is well recognised, teams often struggle to translate their findings into effective preventive actions.

Objective: To present results from a study assessing the quality of written recommendations in published CDRT reports; and provide guidelines for improving the quality and effectiveness of these written recommendations.