What We Do
The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention supports local, state, and tribal fatality review teams working to understand and address patterns in preventable deaths.
We maintain one-of-a-kind national data systems to ensure that information on preventable deaths is robust, reliable, and readily available to guide local, state, tribal, and federal efforts to promote safety and wellbeing.
By supporting and strengthening networks for learning together, we foster opportunities for local, state, and tribal fatality review teams to cultivate, grow, and share expertise. We also offer hands-on training, expert guidance, and trustworthy resources to help fatality review committees turn insights into impact.
Our services can help fatality review teams and programs:
- Develop strategic plans
- Move more intentionally from data and analysis to action and intervention
- Coordinate more effectively across various review types
- Connect and exchange ideas with a network of fatality review leaders
- Improve program design and sustainability
We make our services available through site visits, web-based and digital resources, email, video conferencing, and telephone. You can access some of our support on this website, through our learning modules and other resources – see our Resource Library on the How We Help page.
The power of learning together
The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention fosters opportunities for local, state, and tribal teams to cultivate and share expertise in making communities safer and systems stronger. By learning together, we strengthen our collective capacity to unlock lessons from preventable deaths.
Child Death Review
When a child dies before their 18th birthday, specialized teams – called Child Death Review (CDR) – look at what happened to help avert future deaths.
Fetal & Infant Mortality Review
When a child is born without signs of life, or dies before their first birthday, specialized teams – called Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) – look at what happened and recommend changes.
Suicide Mortality Review Committee
When an adult dies by suicide, specialized teams – called Suicide Mortality Review Committees (SMRC) – generate insights that point to what we can do to help.
Pediatric NFR-CRS
The Pediatric National Fatality Review-Case Reporting System (Pediatric NFR-CRS) is for local, state, and tribal CDR and FIMR teams working to prevent stillbirths and the deaths of newborns, infants, and children.
Adult NFR-CRS
The Adult National Fatality Review-Case Reporting System (Adult NFR-CRS) is for local, state, and tribal teams working to prevent premature adult deaths, with focused questions on deaths due to suicide.