Original Article
Intensive Care for Extreme Prematurity — Moving beyond Gestational Age
N Engl J Med 2008; 358:1672-1681April 17, 2008
- Abstract
Background
Decisions regarding whether to administer intensive care to extremely premature infants are often based on gestational age alone. However, other factors also affect the prognosis for these patients.
Methods
We prospectively studied a cohort of 4446 infants born at 22 to 25 weeks' gestation (determined on the basis of the best obstetrical estimate) in the Neonatal Research Network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to relate risk factors assessable at or before birth to the likelihood of survival, survival without profound neurodevelopmental impairment, and survival without neurodevelopmental impairment at a corrected age of 18 to 22 months.
Results
Among study infants, 3702 (83%) received intensive care in the form of mechanical ventilation. Among the 4192 study infants (94%) for whom outcomes were determined at 18 to 22 months, 49% died, 61% died or had profound impairment, and 73% died or had impairment. In multivariable analyses of infants who received intensive care, exposure to antenatal corticosteroids, female sex, singleton birth, and higher birth weight (per each 100-g increment) were each associated with reductions in the risk of death and the risk of death or profound or any neurodevelopmental impairment; these reductions were similar to those associated with a 1-week increase in gestational age. At the same estimated likelihood of a favorable outcome, girls were less likely than boys to receive intensive care. The outcomes for infants who underwent ventilation were better predicted with the use of the above factors than with use of gestational age alone.
Conclusions
The likelihood of a favorable outcome with intensive care can be better estimated by consideration of four factors in addition to gestational age: sex, exposure or nonexposure to antenatal corticosteroids, whether single or multiple birth, and birth weight. (ClinicalTrials.gov numbers, NCT00063063 and NCT00009633.)
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Figure 1
Observed and Maximum Potential Rates of Survival and Survival without Profound Impairment.Table 1
Characteristics at Birth, Outcomes before Discharge, and Outcomes at a Corrected Age of 18 to 22 Months.Article Activity
- Article
Decisions to initiate or forgo intensive care for extremely premature infants are highly controversial.1-7 In some centers, intensive care is provided to all very premature infants. In most centers, intensive care is provided selectively on the basis of specific gestational-age thresholds. Such care is likely to be routinely administered at 25 weeks' gestation but may be provided only with parental agreement at 23 to 24 weeks, and only “comfort care” may be given at 22 weeks. The evidence base providing support for these decisions is limited,5,6 and the measurement error in assessing pregnancy length8-13 may exceed the 1-to-2-week difference in gestational age that often prompts different treatment decisions.2,3,5,7,14-16
To facilitate more informed and better justified decisions, we assessed a large cohort of infants born at 22 to 25 weeks' gestation in the Neonatal Research Network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to relate gestational age and other risk factors assessable at or before birth to the likelihood of death or adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Methods
Eligibility Criteria
We assessed infants born in 19 centers of the Neonatal Research Network at 22 to 25 completed weeks17 of gestation (25 completed weeks are equivalent to 25 weeks 0 days to 25 weeks 6 days of postmenstrual age) between January 1, 1998, and December 31, 2003. We excluded infants with a major anomaly, a birth weight greater than 1000 g or the 97th percentile for gestational age (suggesting that the gestational age was underestimated9,12), or a birth weight of less than 401 g (below which few infants receive intensive care). Because we adopted the perspective of a physician deciding whether to initiate mechanical ventilation for infants considered very likely to die otherwise, we excluded the 31 infants who survived without mechanical ventilation (described below).
Risk Factors
We recorded the type of delivery, whether the birth was single or multiple, the child's sex, exposure or nonexposure to antenatal corticosteroid treatment within 7 days before delivery, race or ethnic group assigned by maternal report (black [not Hispanic], white [not Hispanic], Hispanic, or other), and birth weight. On the basis of previous findings,13 the best obstetrical estimate based on the last menstrual period, early ultrasonographic examination, or other important prenatal findings was used to calculate gestational age, except in unusual circumstances when only an estimate by the pediatrician18 was available. Details about the mother's menstrual history and ultrasonographic findings were not collected. We considered intensive care to have been provided if mechanical ventilation was initiated. (Nasal continuous positive airway pressure was unlikely to be administered or successfully used to avoid mechanical ventilation at 22 to 25 weeks' gestation.19)
Outcome Assessments
Research nurses using standardized definitions collected data before discharge. Standardized neurodevelopmental assessments were performed at a corrected age of 18 to 22 months by certified examiners trained in a 2-day hands-on workshop.20 Neurodevelopmental impairment was defined as a score of 70 or below on either the Psychomotor Developmental Index or the Mental Developmental Index of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, second edition (on a scale of 50 to 150, with 150 indicating the most advanced development), moderate or severe cerebral palsy,20 bilateral blindness, or bilateral hearing loss requiring amplification. Profound impairment was defined as a Bayley score below 50 (untestable) or a level of 5 for gross motor function according to the modified criteria of Palisano et al.21 (on a scale of 0 to 5, with 5 indicating that adult assistance is required to move).20
Benefits of Intensive Care
We assessed the percentage of infants with the following prespecified primary outcomes: survival, survival without impairment, and survival without profound impairment. To avoid underestimating the potential benefits of intensive care, the maximum potential percentage of infants with favorable outcomes, had all infants received intensive care, was estimated. This estimation was calculated with the assumption that the percentage of infants with a potentially favorable outcome among those who had died without undergoing mechanical ventilation would be the same as the percentage of infants in the same risk category who had a favorable outcome and who underwent mechanical ventilation. Because infants who did not undergo ventilation tended to be smaller, sicker, and less mature than infants in the same risk category who underwent ventilation (data not shown), this approach provides an optimistic estimate. This estimate can be considered the upper bound for the maximum potential percentage of study infants with a favorable outcome. These estimates were not intended to indicate the best outcomes achievable under ideal or future circumstances.
Burdens of Intensive Care
We divided the total number of hospital days or ventilator days before death or discharge home by the number of survivors in order to calculate an index of the infant distress, resource use, and costs22 incurred per survivor. Similar calculations were performed to express the burdens of intensive care per survivor without profound impairment.
We estimated the number of additional hospital or ventilator days that would have been required if all study infants had been given intensive care, assuming that the additional survivors would require no fewer mean days per survivor than infants in the same risk category who were given intensive care. We regard this estimate as being conservative because the infants who died without receiving intensive care tended to be quite small and immature and might well have required more resources per survivor. The additional number of hospital or ventilator days per additional survivor without profound impairment was estimated in a similar manner.
Statistical Analysis
Each outcome for infants who received intensive care was analyzed with the use of a logistic mixed model23,24 performed with the GLIMMIX procedure in SAS software, version 9.1.2 (SAS Institute). Gestational age, birth weight, sex, exposure or nonexposure to antenatal corticosteroids, and single or multiple birth were selected a priori as predictor variables on the basis of previous studies of extremely premature infants.6,25-27 Race or ethnic group as described above was unrelated to the three outcomes in bivariable and multivariable analyses and was not included. The type of delivery was also unrelated to death or to either impairment or profound impairment. The center entered the model as a random intercept to adjust for center differences while providing parameter estimates to permit center-free predictions.21,22 Each completed week of gestation was entered as a categorical variable rather than a continuous variable because the latter resulted in inaccurate estimates of the outcome at 22 and 23 weeks' gestation. A comparison of observed parameter estimates with distributions derived from a bootstrap procedure involving 10,000 resamples provided support for the validity of the final model coefficients. For models of the three main outcomes, the variable estimates were within 0.4 to 2.3% of the median of the bootstrap estimates.
There were no significant interactions between gestational age and other risk factors. Data on infants not examined at 18 to 22 months were excluded from the denominator in analyses including neurodevelopmental impairment but were not excluded in analyses of death alone.
In assessing differences among centers, the expected proportion of infants who underwent ventilation with an adverse outcome was estimated for each center by applying our regression models to the population of infants who underwent ventilation in that center. The ratio of the observed to the expected rate was then calculated for each center.
To compare prognostic assessments based on multiple factors with those based on gestational age alone, we categorized all infants who underwent ventilation into 24 risk groups according to birth weight (≤25th, 26th to 75th, and >75th percentile for gestational age), sex, exposure or nonexposure to antenatal corticosteroids, and single or multiple birth. For each group, the percentage of infants with an unfavorable outcome was predicted with the use of gestational age alone and according to gestational age, birth weight, sex, exposure or nonexposure to antenatal corticosteroids, and single or multiple birth. The observed and estimated rates were then compared. No adjustment for multiple comparisons was performed. Two-sided P values of less than 0.05 were considered to indicate statistical significance. We used our models to develop a simple Web-based tool to estimate the likelihood of a favorable outcome.
Results
The study population of 4446 patients is described in Table 1Table 1
Characteristics at Birth, Outcomes before Discharge, and Outcomes at a Corrected Age of 18 to 22 Months.. The 31 relatively mature infants (0.7%) who were excluded because they survived without mechanical ventilation had a mean gestational age of 24.7 weeks and a birth weight of 765 g; 68% were female; 87% were singletons; and 97% had received antenatal corticosteroids. At 18 to 22 months, none had died; 5 of the 27 examined (19%) had impairment, and none had profound impairment.As expected, the study infants who did not receive intensive care differed from those who received intensive care with respect to birth weight, gestational age, exposure or nonexposure to antenatal corticosteroids, and type of delivery (Table 1). The groups also differed with regard to race or ethnic group (P=0.04); the proportion of infants born at 22 and 23 weeks was highest in the centers with the largest population of black infants. No significant difference in race or ethnic group was present after adjustment for gestational age and center (P=0.74). Among infants who did not survive, the mean (±SD) age at death was 2.0±4.1 hours in the group of infants who did not receive intensive care and 22.4±45.2 days in the group of infants who did receive intensive care.
At 18 to 22 months, 49% of the study infants had died, 61% had died or had profound impairment, and 73% had died or had impairment. The rates for these outcomes according to the week of gestation were 95%, 98%, and 99%, respectively, among study infants born at 22 weeks; 74%, 84%, and 91% among study infants born at 23 weeks; 44%, 57%, and 72% among study infants born at 24 weeks; and 25%, 38%, and 54% among study infants born at 25 weeks.
Predictors of Outcome with Intensive Care
The benefit of a 1-week increase in gestational age varied somewhat at different weeks and for different outcomes (Table 2Table 2
Relation of Major Risk Factors to Observed Outcomes at a Corrected Age of 18 to 22 Months among Infants Who Underwent Mechanical Ventilation.). In multivariable analyses, increased birth weight (per each 100-g increment), female sex, any use of antenatal corticosteroids, and singleton birth were each associated with reductions in risks of death and of death or profound or any neurodevelopmental impairment that were similar to the reductions associated with a 1-week increase in gestational age. (The regression equations relating these risk factors to outcomes are provided in Table A of the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this article at www.nejm.org.)Depending on these risk factors, the estimated probability of an adverse outcome with intensive care varied considerably among infants at the same gestational age (see Fig. A and B of the Supplementary Appendix). For example, among infants born midway between 24 and 25 completed weeks of gestation, the estimated likelihood of death or profound impairment was 33% for a 750-g, appropriate-for-gestational-age female singleton who received antenatal corticosteroids but 87% for a 525-g, small-for-gestational-age male twin who did not receive antenatal corticosteroids.
Outcomes for infants who underwent ventilation varied among centers (P<0.001). Among centers that contributed data on 100 or more infants who underwent ventilation, the ratio of the observed to the expected rate of adverse outcomes ranged from 0.60 to 1.38 for death, 0.75 to 1.23 for death or profound impairment, and 0.85 to 1.17 for death or impairment.
Use of Intensive Care and Infant Risk
As expected, the percentage of study infants who received intensive care increased progressively with increasing gestational age (from 23% at 22 weeks' gestation to 99% at 25 weeks' gestation) and birth weight (from 49% at 401 to 500 g to ≥97% at 701 to 1000 g). Intensive care was administered to more infants who received antenatal corticosteroids than to those who did not (94% vs. 58%). However, the percentage of infants who received intensive care was not significantly greater for singletons than for multiples (83% and 84%, respectively) or for female infants than for male infants (84% and 83%, respectively). This was also true at the lowest gestational ages (for female and male infants: 21% and 25%, respectively, at 22 weeks and 65% and 74%, respectively, at 23 weeks). For each major outcome, the percentage of infants who received intensive care was lower for female infants than male infants and for singletons than for multiples, after adjustment for the predicted likelihood of a favorable outcome with intensive care (P<0.01).
Outcome Prediction
The outcomes of the infant risk groups were predicted more accurately with the use of five factors (gestational age, birth weight, sex, exposure or nonexposure to antenatal corticosteroids, and single or multiple gestation) than with the use of gestational age alone, particularly for some subgroups (P<0.001 for the mean absolute difference between predicted and observed values and for the area under the receiver-operating-characteristic curve) (Table 3Table 3
Comparison of Models Using Gestational Age Alone with Models Using Five Factors.). (See Tables B and C of the Supplementary Appendix for specific subgroup data.)Benefits of Intensive Care for Small Immature Infants
Even among the study infants at 24 weeks' gestation or less and with a birth weight of 600 g or less, outcomes varied considerably among different risk groups. The observed and maximum potential rates of survival without profound impairment were as low as 2 and 5%, respectively, for boys who weighed 401 to 500 g at 22 weeks' gestation and as high as 37 and 38%, respectively, for girls who weighed 501 to 600 g at 24 weeks' gestation (Figure 1Figure 1
Observed and Maximum Potential Rates of Survival and Survival without Profound Impairment.).Burdens of Intensive Care
Among all study infants, the total resource use per survivor and per survivor without profound impairment was high, particularly at the lowest gestational ages. The total resource use was consistently greater for male than for female infants (Table 4Table 4
Mean Resource Use per Survivor and per Survivor without Profound Impairment at a Corrected Age of 18 to 22 Months.).Benefits and Burdens of Universal Intensive Care for Infants at 22 to 23 Weeks
We estimate that providing universal intensive care to all infants who were born at 22 to 23 weeks' gestation would have resulted in at least 1749 extra hospital days and 0 to 9 additional survivors per 100 infants treated. We estimate that of 0 to 9 additional survivors per 100 infants treated, 0 to 5 would have survived without profound impairment and 0 to 3 would have survived without impairment.
Discussion
Our findings challenge the widespread use of gestational-age thresholds alone in deciding whether to administer intensive care to extremely premature infants. In multivariable models of infants who received intensive care, female sex, exposure to antenatal corticosteroid therapy, singleton birth, and increased birth weight (per 100-g increment) were each associated with benefits similar to those of an increase in gestational age of approximately 1 week. In bivariable analyses as well as analyses adjusted for the center and the factors described above, race or ethnic group had no significant association with outcomes; these findings are similar to those in a previous Neonatal Research Network study.25 At the same estimated likelihood of a favorable outcome, the likelihood of receiving intensive care was lower for girls than for boys and for singletons than for multiples. The likelihood of death or adverse developmental outcomes among different risk groups was more accurately estimated with the use of multiple risk factors than with the use of gestational age alone.
Outcomes are likely to be more closely related to gestational age in populations that virtually always undergo an early ultrasonographic assessment.9,28 Estimates based on ultrasonographic examinations have been reported to have an error (±2 SD) of approximately 4 days at 12 to 14 weeks29 and 7 days at 14 to 22 weeks.30 However, even early estimates based on ultrasonographic examinations are subject to both systematic and random error,10,31-33 and their accuracy has generally been assessed in relatively healthy populations evaluated by ultrasonographers who are aware of other indicators of pregnancy length. The error under field conditions at 20 to 30 weeks' gestation may be as great as 2 weeks.14 For many extremely premature infants, the measurement error in assessing pregnancy length8-14,29-31 is more than the 1-to-2-week difference in gestational age that would change treatment decisions with the use of current gestational-age thresholds. The error in estimating fetal weight should also be considered in antepartum counseling.
For multiple reasons, the effects of intensive care on extremely premature infants are unlikely to be determined in randomized trials. Observational studies are more subject to bias, particularly at the lowest gestational ages, when intensive care is used most selectively. Our study is also limited by the unavailability of data indicating how the obstetrical estimate of gestational age was assigned, the inability to determine the outcome for 6% of the study infants, and the use of center-based samples. A population-based study is needed to verify the absence of an important effect of race or ethnic group on the outcome for extremely premature infants. The better outcomes for infants who received antenatal corticosteroids result at least in part from their use when obstetricians are committed to optimizing outcomes.34 Whether the use of corticosteroids has a benefit before 26 weeks' gestation remains to be determined in randomized trials.35
The strengths of our study include a prospective evaluation of a large, heterogeneous cohort and assessment of profound impairment, an outcome that some persons consider to be worse than death.36,37 Total ventilator days or hospital days before discharge per infant with a favorable outcome were computed as indexes of cost, resource use, parental distress, and infant suffering due to painful procedures, prolonged intubation, and such complications as intracranial hemorrhage, necrotizing enterocolitis, and recurrent episodes of hypoxia.5 Conventional analyses of cost-effectiveness are problematic for neonatal intensive care,5 and we did not attempt to measure short-term or long-term financial costs. However, current costs before discharge may be estimated at approximately $3,400 per hospital day (2007 U.S. dollars, based on the estimates of Schmitt et al.22 and adjusted for inflation38). Barring major therapeutic advances, our findings indicate that extending intensive care to all of the most immature infants would entail considerable suffering, resource use, and cost in order to benefit only a small proportion of infants.
When are the burdens of intensive care justified by the likelihood of benefit? Traditional estimates of this likelihood are based on the proportion of births of infants in the highest-risk groups with a good outcome. Because some infants die without receiving intensive care, this approach underestimates the likelihood of a benefit from intensive care. To avoid this problem and provide an upper bound for the likelihood of such a benefit, we assessed the maximum potential benefit, assuming the same outcome among infants who died without receiving intensive care as among infants who received intensive care in the same risk category. In any risk category, the true likelihood of a benefit from intensive care is likely to be intermediate between the observed and maximum potential percentage of infants with a favorable outcome. Whether intensive care should be considered mandatory (i.e., given even if the parents object), optional, investigational, or unwarranted (i.e., not given even if requested by the parents) can be considered in terms of the likelihood of a benefit.5
In deciding whether to administer intensive care, Paris39 contends that “The best one can do . . . is to make a human judgment based on probabilities.” Physicians should do their best to estimate and interpret these probabilities in counseling parents.40
Whatever minimum probability of a favorable outcome is judged to warrant intensive care, consideration of multiple factors is likely to promote treatment decisions that are less arbitrary, more individualized, more transparent, and better justified than decisions based solely on gestational-age thresholds. A simple Web-based tool (www.nichd.nih.gov/neonatalestimates) allows clinicians to use our findings in estimating the likelihood that intensive care will benefit individual infants, after considering the extent to which outcomes in their center might differ from those we identified.
Supported by grants (U01 HD36790, U10 HD21364, U10 HD21373, U10 HD21385, U10 HD21397, U10 HD21415, U10 HD27851, U10 HD27853, U10 HD27856, U10 HD27871, U10 HD27880, U10 HD27881, U10 HD27904, U10 HD34167, U10 HD34216, U10 HD40461, U10 HD40492, U10 HD40498, U10 HD40521, U10 HD40689, GCRC M01 RR 00039, GCRC M01 RR 00044, GCRC M01 RR 00070, GCRC M01 RR 00125, GCRC M01 RR 00750, GCRC M01 RR 00997, GCRC M01 RR 06022, GCRC M01 RR 08084, 5K23NS048152-02, and CCTS UL1 RR24148) from the National Institutes of Health.
No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.
We thank our medical and nursing colleagues and the parents who agreed to allow their infants to take part in this study.
Source Information
From the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston (J.E.T., N.A.P., C.G.); the Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC (J.L.); and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD (R.D.H.).
Address reprint requests to Dr. Tyson at the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, MSB 2.106, 6431 Fannin St., Houston, TX 77030, or at jon.e.tyson@uth.tmc.edu.
Appendix
In addition to the authors, the following investigators participated in the Generic Database Study of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network: A. Jobe (chair); Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence — A.R. Laptook, W. Oh, A. Hensman, B. Vohr, L. Noel; Case Western Reserve University and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland — A.A. Fanaroff, M.C. Walsh, N.S. Newman, D. Wilson-Costello, B.S. Siner; Duke University, University Hospital, Alamance Regional Medical Center, Duke Raleigh Hospital, and Durham Regional Hospital, Raleigh, NC — R.N. Goldberg, C.M. Cotten, K. Auten, R. Goldstein, M. Lohmeyer; Emory University, Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory Crawford Long Hospital, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta — B.J. Stoll, L. Jain, E. Hale; Harvard University, Boston — A.R. Stark, K. Fournier, K.G. Lee, C. Driscoll; Indiana University, Indiana University Hospital, Methodist Hospital, Riley Hospital for Children, and Wishard Health Services, Indianapolis — B.B. Poindexter, J.A. Lemons, D.D. Appel, L. Miller, A.M. Dusick, L. Richard; RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC — A. Das, W.K. Poole, C.P. Huitema, K. Zaterka-Baxter; Stanford University, Dominican Hospital, El Camino Hospital, and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA — D.K. Stevenson, K.P. Van Meurs, M.B. Ball, S.R. Hintz; University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System and Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham — W.A. Carlo, M.V. Collins, S.S. Cosby, M. Peralta-Carcelen, V. Phillips; University of California, San Diego, Medical Center and Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women, San Diego — N.N. Finer, D. Kaegi, C. Henderson, K. Arnell, W. Rich, Y.E. Vaucher, M. Fuller; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati — E.F. Donovan, K. Schibler, B. Alexander, C. Grisby, H. Mincey, J. Shively, J. Steichen, T. Gratton; Holtz Children's Hospital at the University of Miami, Miami — S. Duara, C. Bauer, R. Everett; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque — L. Papile, K. Watterberg, C.B. Lacy, J. Lowe; University of Rochester and Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong, Rochester, NY — D.L. Phelps, R. Guillet, L. Reubens, G. Myers, D. Hust; University of Tennessee, Memphis — S.B. Korones, K. Yolton, M. Williams; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Parkland Hospital, and Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas — P. Sanchez, G. Hensley, N. Miller, S. Madison, R. Heyne, S. Broyles, J. Hickman; University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston — K. Kennedy, A.E. Lis, C.Y. Franco, E.G. Akpa, G. McDavid, P.A. Cluff, B.H. Morris, P.J. Bradt; Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Forsyth Medical Center, and Brenner Children's Hospital, Winston-Salem, NC — T.M. O'Shea, L. Washburn, N. Peters, R. Dillard, B. Jackson; Wayne State University, Hutzel Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit — S. Shankaran, G. Muran, R. Bara, Y. Johnson, D. Kennedy; Yale University, Bridgeport Hospital, and Yale–New Haven Children's Hospital, New Haven, CT — R.A. Ehrenkranz, P. Gettner, E. Romano.
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Myra H. Wyckoff, Walid A. Salhab, Roy J. Heyne, Douglas E. Kendrick, Barbara J. Stoll, Abbot R. Laptook. (2012) Outcome of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants Who Received Delivery Room Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. The Journal of Pediatrics 160:2, 239-244.e2
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Lilia C. De Jesus, Athina Pappas, Seetha Shankaran, Douglas Kendrick, Abhik Das, Rosemary D. Higgins, Edward F. Bell, Barbara J. Stoll, Abbot R. Laptook, Michele C. Walsh. (2012) Risk Factors for Post–Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge Mortality among Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants. The Journal of Pediatrics
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Eric C. Eichenwald. 2012. Care of the Extremely Low-Birthweight Infant. , 390-404.
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John Colin Partridge, Mya D. Sendowski, Alma M. Martinez, Aaron B. Caughey. (2012) Resuscitation of likely nonviable infants: a cost-utility analysis after the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 206:1, 49.e1-49.e10
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Tina A. Leone, Neil N. Finer. 2012. Resuscitation in the Delivery Room. , 328-340.
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William L. Meadow, John D. Lantos. 2012. Ethics, Data, and Policy in Newborn Intensive Care. , 18-22.
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CARL H. BACKES, PAMELA A. MOOREHEAD, LEIF D. NELIN. (2011) Cancer in Pregnancy. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology 54:4, 574-590
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D Dukhovny, S Dukhovny, D M Pursley, G J Escobar, M C McCormick, W Y Mao, J A F Zupancic. (2011) The impact of maternal characteristics on the moderately premature infant: an antenatal maternal transport clinical prediction rule. Journal of Perinatology
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Úrsula Guillén, Sanghee Suh, David Munson, Michael Posencheg, Elissa Truitt, John A.F. Zupancic, Amiram Gafni, Haresh Kirpalani. (2011) Development and Pretesting of a Decision-Aid to Use When Counseling Parents Facing Imminent Extreme Premature Delivery. The Journal of Pediatrics
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Martha S. Wingate, Wanda D. Barfield. (2011) Racial and Ethnic Variations in Temporal Changes in Fetal Deaths and First Day Infant Deaths. Maternal and Child Health Journal 15:8, 1135-1142
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Robert E. Schumacher. (2011) Myth: Neonatology is evidence-based. Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 16:5, 288-292
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Úrsula Guillen, Sara DeMauro, Li Ma, John Zupancic, Eileen Wang, Amiram Gafni, Haresh Kirpalani. (2011) Survival rates in extremely low birthweight infants depend on the denominator: avoiding potential for bias by specifying denominators. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 205:4, 329.e1-329.e7
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Marlyse F. Haward, Nancy W. Kirshenbaum, Deborah E. Campbell. (2011) Care at the Edge of Viability: Medical and Ethical Issues. Clinics in Perinatology 38:3, 471-492
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Michael Obladen. (2011) Historical notes on immaturity. Part 2: Surviving against the odds. Journal of Perinatal Medicine 39:5, 571-577
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Annie Janvier, Bridget Spelke, Keith J. Barrington. (2011) The Epidemic of Multiple Gestations and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Use: The Cost of Irresponsibility. The Journal of Pediatrics 159:3, 409-413
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Joanne Lagatta, Bree Andrews, Leslie Caldarelli, Michael Schreiber, Susan Plesha-Troyke, William Meadow. (2011) Early Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Therapy Improves Predictive Power for the Outcomes of Ventilated Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants. The Journal of Pediatrics 159:3, 384-391.e1
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Douglas Vanderbilt, Mary Margaret Gleason. (2011) Mental Health Concerns of the Premature Infant Through the Lifespan. Pediatric Clinics of North America 58:4, 815-832
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A. C. Wickremasinghe, T. K. Hartman, R. G. Voigt, S. K. Katusic, A. L. Weaver, C. E. Colby, W. J. Barbaresi. (2011) Evaluation of the ability of neurobiological, neurodevelopmental and socio-economic variables to predict cognitive outcome in premature infants. Child: Care, Health and Developmentno-no
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M El-Dib, A N Massaro, P Glass, H Aly. (2011) Neurobehavioral assessment as a predictor of neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm infants. Journal of Perinatology
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Anne C. Boat, Senthilkumar Sadhasivam, Andreas W. Loepke, Charles D. Kurth. (2011) Outcome for the extremely premature neonate: how far do we push the edge?. Pediatric Anesthesia 21:7, 765-770
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Beau Batton, Christopher Burnett, Steven Verhulst, Daniel Batton. (2011) Extremely Preterm Infant Mortality Rates and Cesarean Deliveries in the United States. Obstetrics & Gynecology 118:1, 43-48
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Jay D. Iams, Edward F. Donovan, Barbara Rose, Mona Prasad. (2011) What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate: Obstacles to Optimal Care for Preterm Birth. Clinics in Perinatology
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I. Glenn Cohen, Sadath Sayeed. (2011) Fetal Pain, Abortion, Viability, and the Constitution. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 39:2, 235-242
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David T. Wheeler, Velma Dobson, Michael F. Chiang, Don L. Bremer, Ira H. Gewolb, Dale L. Phelps, Robert J. Hardy, William V. Good, Rae Fellows, Betty P. Tung, Earl A. Palmer. (2011) Retinopathy of Prematurity in Infants Weighing Less Than 500 Grams at Birth Enrolled in the Early Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity Study. Ophthalmology 118:6, 1145-1151
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John D. Lantos, William L. Meadow. (2011) Costs and End-of-Life Care in the NICU: Lessons for the MICU?. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 39:2, 194-200
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Mohamed El-Dib, An N. Massaro, Penny Glass, Dorothy Bulas, Nadia Badrawi, Azza Orabi, Hany Aly. (2011) Early amplitude integrated electroencephalography and outcome of very low birth weight infants. Pediatrics International 53:3, 315-321
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Joanne Lagatta, Ke Yan, Raymond Hoffmann. (2011) The association between 5-min Apgar score and mortality disappears after 24 h at the borderline of viability. Acta Paediatricano-no
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William Meadow, Xander Meadow, Robert R Tanz, Joanne Lagatta, John Lantos. (2011) The value of a trial of therapy - football as a ‘proof-of-concept’. Acta Paediatrica 100:2, 167-169
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Nathalie Petit, Hendrik Cammu, Guy Martens, Emile Papiernik. (2011) Perinatal Outcome of Twins Compared to Singletons of the Same Gestational Age: A Case-Control Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics 14:1, 88-93
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George A. Gregory, Claire Brett. 2011. Neonatology for Anesthesiologists. , 512-553.
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D Duffy, P Reynolds. (2011) Babies born at the threshold of viability: attitudes of paediatric consultants and trainees in South East England. Acta Paediatrica 100:1, 42-46
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Henry Chong Lee, Mohammad Subeh, Jeffrey B. Gould. (2010) Low Apgar score and mortality in extremely preterm neonates born in the United States. Acta Paediatrica 99:12, 1785-1789
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O Genzel-Boroviczény, J Hempelman, L Zoppelli, A Martinez. (2010) Predictive value of the 1-min Apgar score for survival at 23-26 weeks gestational age. Acta Paediatrica 99:12, 1790-1794
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Cameron H Swinton, John D Lantos. (2010) Current empirical research in neonatal bioethics. Acta Paediatrica 99:12, 1773-1781
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Gunnar Sjörs. (2010) Treatment decisions for extremely preterm newborns: beyond gestational age. Acta Paediatrica 99:12, 1761-1762
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Ida Sue Baron, Celiane Rey-Casserly. (2010) Extremely Preterm Birth Outcome: A Review of Four Decades of Cognitive Research. Neuropsychology Review 20:4, 430-452
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Alan H. Jobe. (2010) “Miracle” Extremely Low Birth Weight Neonates. Obstetrics & Gynecology 116:5, 1184-1190
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Sonia L. Bonifacio, Hannah C. Glass, Vann Chau, Jeffrey I. Berman, Duan Xu, Rollin Brant, A. James Barkovich, Kenneth J. Poskitt, Steven P. Miller, Donna M. Ferriero. (2010) Extreme Premature Birth is not Associated with Impaired Development of Brain Microstructure. The Journal of Pediatrics 157:5, 726-732.e1
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Daniel W. Skupski, Frank A. Chervenak, Laurence B. McCullough, Eduardo Bancalari, Dominique Haumont, Umberto Simeoni, Ola Saugstad, Steven Donn, Birgit Arabin, Anne Greenough, Gianpaolo Donzelli, Malcolm Levene, Cihat Sen, Xavier Carbonell, Joachim W. Dudenhausen, Radu Vladareanu, Aris Antsaklis, Zoltan Papp, Mehmet Aksit, Manuel Carrapato. (2010) Ethical dimensions of periviability. Journal of Perinatal Medicine 38:6, 579-583
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B Zlatohlávková, J Kytnarová, AA Kuběna, A Fleischnerová, M Dokoupilová, R Plavka. (2010) Five-year survival without major disability of extremely preterm infants born at 22-27 weeks’ gestation admitted to a NICU. Acta Paediatrica 99:11, 1618-1623
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Jonathan Wyllie, Jeffrey M. Perlman, John Kattwinkel, Dianne L. Atkins, Leon Chameides, Jay P. Goldsmith, Ruth Guinsburg, Mary Fran Hazinski, Colin Morley, Sam Richmond, Wendy M. Simon, Nalini Singhal, Edgardo Szyld, Masanori Tamura, Sithembiso Velaphi. (2010) Part 11: Neonatal resuscitation. Resuscitation 81:1, e260-e287
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S. Saria, A. K. Rajani, J. Gould, D. Koller, A. A. Penn. (2010) Integration of Early Physiological Responses Predicts Later Illness Severity in Preterm Infants. Science Translational Medicine 2:48, 48ra65-48ra65
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M. Gielen, C. E. M. van Beijsterveldt, C. Derom, R. Vlietinck, J. G. Nijhuis, M. P. A. Zeegers, D. I. Boomsma. (2010) Secular trends in gestational age and birthweight in twins. Human Reproduction 25:9, 2346-2353
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(2010) Incidence of and risk factors for neonatal morbidity after active perinatal care: extremely preterm infants study in Sweden (EXPRESS). Acta Paediatrica 99:7, 978-992
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Michael Peek, George J. Mangos, Mark A. Brown. 2010. Approach to Fetal Assessment, Optimization of Neonatal Outcome, Mode of Delivery and Timing for Nonobstetric Readers. , 749-753.
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GHADA BEAINO, BABAK KHOSHNOOD, MONIQUE KAMINSKI, VÉRONIQUE PIERRAT, STÉPHANE MARRET, JACQUELINE MATIS, BERNARD LEDÉSERT, GÉRARD THIRIEZ, JEANNE FRESSON, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE ROZÉ, VÉRONIQUE ZUPAN-SIMUNEK, CATHERINE ARNAUD, ANTOINE BURGUET, BÉATRICE LARROQUE, GÉRARD BRÉART, PIERRE-YVES ANCEL, . (2010) Predictors of cerebral palsy in very preterm infants: the EPIPAGE prospective population-based cohort study. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 52:6, e119-e125
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C. Roll. (2010) Frühgeborene an der Grenze der Lebensfähigkeit. Der Gynäkologe 43:6, 495-498
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Daniel Batton. (2010) Resuscitation of extremely low gestational age infants: an Advisory Committee’s Dilemmas. Acta Paediatrica 99:6, 810-811
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Mark W. Tomlinson, Joseph W. Kaempf, Linda A. Ferguson, Valerie T. Stewart. (2010) Caring for the pregnant woman presenting at periviable gestation: acknowledging the ambiguity and uncertainty. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 202:6, 529.e1-529.e6
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J.W. Dudenhausen. (2010) Indikationen zur Schnittentbindung an der Grenze der Lebensfähigkeit. Der Gynäkologe 43:6, 472-474
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R. Hentschel. (2010) Elternberatung und Erstversorgung vor dem Hintergrund der deutschsprachigen Leitlinien. Der Gynäkologe 43:6, 475-482
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Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, Jill Sweney, W. Bradley Poss. (2010) Critical appraisal of: Triaging pediatric critical care resources during a pandemic: Ethical and medical considerations*. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 11:3, 396-400
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William A. Grobman, Karen Kavanaugh, Teresa Moro, Raye-Ann DeRegnier, Teresa Savage. (2010) Providing Advice to Parents for Women at Acutely High Risk of Periviable Delivery. Obstetrics & Gynecology 115:5, 904-909
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Douglas Vanderbilt, Mary Margaret Gleason. (2010) Mental Health Concerns of the Premature Infant Through the Lifespan. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 19:2, 211-228
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Robert H. Pfister, Jay P. Goldsmith. (2010) Quality Improvement in Respiratory Care: Decreasing Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. Clinics in Perinatology 37:1, 273-293
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M. R. Mercurio. (2010) Ethics for the Pediatrician: Imperiled Newborns: Limiting Treatment. Pediatrics in Review 31:2, 72-75
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Thomas M. Berger. (2010) Decisions in the Gray Zone: Evidence-Based or Culture-Based?. The Journal of Pediatrics 156:1, 7-9
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Renee D. Boss. (2010) Palliative care for extremely premature infants and their families. Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 16:4, 296-301
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Daniel W. Skupski, Laurence B. McCullough, Malcolm Levene, Frank A. Chervenak. (2010) Improving obstetric estimation of outcomes of extremely premature neonates: an evolving challenge. Journal of Perinatal Medicine 38:1, 19-22
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Tove S. Rosen, David Bateman. 2010. The Effects of Gender in Neonatal Medicine. , 3-17.
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Claudine Amiel-Tison, Julie Gosselin. 2010. Pathologie hypoxique-ischémique et/ou hémorragique chez le nouveau-né prématuré. , 171-180.
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Olli S. Miettinen, Lucas M. Bachmann, Johann Steurer. (2009) Clinical research: up from âclinical epidemiologyâ. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 15:6, 1208-1213
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Dominic Wilkinson. (2009) The self-fulfilling prophecy in intensive care. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30:6, 401-410
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Mark R. Mercurio. (2009) The Ethics of Newborn Resuscitation. Seminars in Perinatology 33:6, 354-363
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Eliza Myers, Laura R. Ment. (2009) Long-term Outcome of Preterm Infants and the Role of Neuroimaging. Clinics in Perinatology 36:4, 773-789
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Frank A. Chervenak, Laurence B. McCullough. (2009) An ethically justified practical approach to offering, recommending, performing, and referring for induced abortion and feticide. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 201:6, 560.e1-560.e6
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Patrizia Kutz, Sandra Horsch, Lisa Kühn, Claudia Roll. (2009) Single-centre vs. population-based outcome data of extremely preterm infants at the limits of viability. Acta Paediatrica 98:9, 1451-1455
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Catalin S. Buhimschi, Margaret A. Baumbusch, Antonette T. Dulay, Emily A. Oliver, Sarah Lee, Guomao Zhao, Vineet Bhandari, Richard A. Ehrenkranz, Carl P. Weiner, Joseph A. Madri, Irina A. Buhimschi. (2009) Characterization of RAGE, HMGB1, and S100β in Inflammation-Induced Preterm Birth and Fetal Tissue Injury. The American Journal of Pathology 175:3, 958-975
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M J Bizzarro, M R Mercurio. (2009) Selective resuscitation in premature twins: an ethical analysis. Journal of Perinatology 29:7, 479-482
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Olaf Dammann. (2009) Risk, predictability and biomedical neo-pragmatism. Acta Paediatrica 98:7, 1093-1095
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John P. Newnham, Alan H. Jobe. (2009) Should we be prescribing repeated courses of antenatal corticosteroids?. Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 14:3, 157-163
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Bonnie E. Stephens, Betty R. Vohr. (2009) Neurodevelopmental Outcome of the Premature Infant. Pediatric Clinics of North America 56:3, 631-646
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E.S. Shinwell, S. Eventov-Friedman. (2009) Impact of perinatal corticosteroids on neuromotor development and outcome: Review of the literature and new meta-analysis. Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 14:3, 164-170
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Catalin S Buhimschi, Vineet Bhandari, Yiping W Han, Antonette T Dulay, Margaret A Baumbusch, Joseph A Madri, Irina A Buhimschi. (2009) Using proteomics in perinatal and neonatal sepsis: hopes and challenges for the future. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases 22:3, 235-243
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J. C. Partridge, B. J. Dickey. (2009) Decision-making in Neonatal Intensive Care: Interventions on Behalf of Preterm Infants. NeoReviews 10:6, e270-e279
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U Kiechl-Kohlendorfer, E Ralser, U Pupp Peglow, G Reiter, R Trawöger. (2009) Adverse neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm infants: risk factor profiles for different gestational ages. Acta Paediatrica 98:5, 792-796
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Pia Lundqvist, Karin Källén, Inger Hallström, Lena Hellström Westas. (2009) Trends in outcomes for very preterm infants in the southern region of Sweden over a 10-year period. Acta Paediatrica 98:4, 648-653
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Clarissa Bonanno, Ronald J. Wapner. (2009) Antenatal corticosteroid treatment: what's happened since Drs Liggins and Howie?. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 200:4, 448-457
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Francesca Gotsch, Francesca Gotsch, Roberto Romero, Offer Erez, Edi Vaisbuch, Juan Pedro Kusanovic, Shali Mazaki-Tovi, Sun Kwon Kim, Sonia Hassan, Lami Yeo. (2009) The preterm parturition syndrome and its implications for understanding the biology, risk assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of preterm birth. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 22:s2, 5-23
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Carl T D’Angio, Mark R Mercurio. (2008) Evidence-based ethics in the gray zone of neonatal viability: promises and limitations. Pediatric Health 2:6, 777-786
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Shuyuann Wang Foreman, Karen A. Thomas, Susan T. Blackburn. (2008) Individual and Gender Differences Matter in Preterm Infant State Development. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing 37:6, 657-665
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