Objective To investigate the characteristics and the causes of medical dispute of child death from the angle of forensic appraisal.Methods A total of 184 cases of child deaths in the department of pediatrics were dealt with by West China Forensic Science Identification Center of Sichuan University between January 2002 and December 2011.We retrospectively analyzed the forensic appraisal of these cases.Results This kind of medical disputes had an increasing tendency,and most of them were focused on newborns.T...