Interesting, but if you continue the same article you quote, it refutes that as a major cause of the difference: "But these reporting differences cannot accoun

Interesting, but if you continue the same article you quote, it refutes that as a major cause of the difference: "But these reporting differences cannot account for the full extent of the gap between countries, says Paul Wise, MD, a pediatrician at Packard Children’s and a health policy analyst at Stanford. “The reporting differences are a minor part of the story but not an excuse for why the U.S has such a high mortality rate.” Because even when researchers look only at births that meet the criteria for all European countries — 500-gram babies born at 22 weeks and later — the United States doesn’t fare any better. In 2009, Marian MacDorman, PhD, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics drew up a new ranking list, comparing the United States with 20 European countries and excluding the deaths of all babies born before 22 weeks’ gestation. The United States still ranked below most European countries." http://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2013fall/article2.html http://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2013fall/article2.htm...